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'''Ardashir I''', Artaxerxes, Artaxares, Artashastra
Independent king of Persia, King of [[Iran]]/ of [[Aryan]]s, 224-241.
Founder of the [[Sassanian]] Empire of [[Persia]], born in the late second Century CE. Ardashir inherited a
Ardashir is the ancestor of [[Sassanid]] dynasty on the Persian throne. He claimed that he descended from ancient Persian [[Akhemenid]] Kings, [[Cyrus the Great]] of Persia and [[Darius I of Persia]] the Great.
Sassanid era began in earnest in 228. Ardashir began to create a vast empire which included those lands of the old Achaemenid Persian empire east of the Euphrates River.
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There is a Persian legend which says his son and successor Shapur was his son with an [[Arsacid Dynasty|Arsacid]] princess, though the legend has no historical evidence.
Ardashir was succeeded by his son [[Shapur I]] (king from [[241]] to [[272]]). A stone inscription of Shapur tells that Ardashir's father was a local king named Papak. "the Mazdayasnian, the god Sapores, king of kings of the
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