sasanian empire

Hi, welcome to my first alt-history fic. This will be primarily focused on Persia, but for those of you Rome fans there will be plenty of focus on the Roman Empire too. This TL is partially inspired by this thread which I recommend you read. You may notice me in that thread, arguing that Rome...

With the beginning of the Arab conquest of the Sasanian Empire from 632 AD onward, shah Yazdegerd III spent the rest of his reign constantly fleeing further and further east: first to Hulwan, then Isfahan, Istakhr and finally Merv, in Khorasan, where he was eventually murdered. Suppose the...

In real history, the Alchon Hunas (not to be confused with their possible relatives who invaded the Roman Empire c. 440) were a Central Asian tribe who invaded India between around 480 (after a previous Huna incursion had been defeated c. 460 by Skandagupta, the last important ruler of the Gupta...

Lately I have been researching the Western Roman Empire and I have been making a mapgame of the usurpation of Magnus Maximus and I have asked myself the following question: What would have happened if the destinies of the West and East were reversed? that is, the Western Roman Empire manages to...

Khosrow II, the last of the "great" Sassanid shahs (the quotes are because he was actually pretty terrible), began his reign under very inauspicious circumstances: his father, the destructively paranoid Hormizd IV, had been murdered, the empire was locked in a long, bloody and fruitless war with...

After its disastrous defeat at al-Qadisiyyah and the fall of Ctesiphon to the Arab invaders, the Sassanid Empire had only one army of note west of the Zagros Mountains by 637 AD. Said army was stationed at Jalula, along a narrow strip of land flanked by a river on one side and impassable terrain...

The activites of Mani, founder of Manichaeism, were initially tolerated by the Sasanian authorities until the reign of Bahram I, during which he was imprisoned and was either executed or died beforehand. How plausible could it be for one of the early Sassanid shahs to not only tolerate...

Inspired by https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/626-constantinople-falls-what-next.515755 I was thinking about the scenario in the thread above when it hit me how absurd the OTL 626 siege must have looked. On one side, the ancient world's toughest nut to crack and its fleet; OTOH...

Peroz I was Shah of the Sasanian Empire from 459 to 484. He fought three wars against the Hephthalites during his reign, and while they were all defeats, the last one was especially catastrophic since it ended with his death and that of several prominent nobles in a battle near Herat, after...

The House of Karen was one of the Seven Great Houses of Iran during the Parthian and Sasanian Empires. What if they had formed a Persian Empire of their own at some point?

The Hunnic people known as the Hephthalites, also known as the White Huns, spent over a century intermittently warring with the Sasanian Empire. While the two powers were briefly allied following the rise of Peroz I to the Sasanian throne, even working together to defeat the Kidarites, they went...

We all know what happened after the death of Muhammad. The newly Muslim Arabs spread out of Arabia, warring against both the Byzantine and Sasanian Empires. But while they completely conquered the former, the latter managed to hold on despite the beating it took. Your challenge is to have it so...

God's Empire: A Roman Late Antiquity TL Choosing the Imperial Brothers In the late June heat, the Apostate Emperor was stabbed by a spear while fighting off a Sasanian attack to take his retreating army in the rear. Carried back to camp by his troops, Julian would die with the knowledge that...

As you may know, the Last Persian War in the 7th century was one of the many reasons that Khosrow II is called "the Great" in many places in the world. His victory pratically restored the Achaemenid Empire's borders and changed the world order and history forever. But let's go to the question...

Your challenge is to have the Sasanian Empire restored and make sure the Tang dynasty play a major role in bringing it back.