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Line 1: '''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 ~~crown~~tribal inkingship ~~Persia~~of the Fars province, Persis, in 208. He rapidy extended his territory, defeating his [[Parthian]] overlords at Hormizdagan in 224, and occupying their capital [[Ctesiphon]]. In 228, he destroyed the [[Parthian Empire]] which had held sway over the region for 400 years. He made [[Zoroastrianism]] again the state religion. 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. Line 12: 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 ~~[[Aryan]]s~~Aryans [Iranians] and non-Aryans, of divine descent, son of the Mazdayasnian, the god Artaxares, king of kings of the Aryans, grandson of the god-king Papak."

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