Perska okupacja Egiptu w VII w. n.e.

Abstract

(The Persian occupation of Egypt in the seventh c. BC): Through the efforts of Emperor Maurice and king Khosrow II a period of peace between the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran reigned in the early seventh c. When Maurice died in rebellion of Fokas in 602, Khosrow attacked the Roman Empire, taking Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine with Jerusalem and Egypt, the granary of the empire. Thousands of inhabitants of Alexandria were killed by Persians in 619. For the first time since the Achaemenid age Egypt belonged to the Persian empire and Khosrow appointed a certain Saraleneozan marzaban of Egypt. Iranian elite was aware of history of Egypt. We know these events thanks to the Shahname of Ferdowsi, the tents-c. Iranian national epos. Persian occupation of Egypt lasted for ten years but many cultural patterns brought by the Persians remained in Egypt for a long time well into the Arab rule.