The Sassanid-Byzantine conflict and its effects on ancient Kurdistan between the years (590-630 A.D.)

This book is a historical study on the Sassanid-Byzantine conflict and its effects on ancient Kurdistan between the years (590-630 A.D.), its topics are arranged in chapters and sections consisting of a preface, an introduction, three chapters, and appendices. At the beginning of this book, there is a historical summary of the Sassanid and Byzantine Empires.

In the first chapter of the book, the geographical and historical background of ancient Kurdistan and the conflicts between the Sassanids and Byzantines from 224 A.D. to the year 590 is discussed and it contains two parts, on the Kurds and the name of Kurdistan, the most important regions and cities of ancient Kurdistan such as the Media region, Azerbaijan (Media Atropatene), Upper Mesopotamia (Jazira), Adiabene, and Corduene, other regions where Kurds live such as Armenia, Fars, and Ahwaz (Khuzestan), other inhabitants of ancient Kurdistan such as Persians, Arabs, Armenians, and Romans, and religious structures such as Zoroastrianism and Christianity. The causes of the conflicts and the importance of Kurdistan in the Sassanid-Byzantine war.

The second chapter is about the political relations and military conflicts between the years 590-621 A.D. and consists of two parts, on the period of political relations between the years (590 – 602 A.D.) such as the movement of Bahram Chobin and the asylum of Khosrow Parviz to the Byzantine Emperor Maurice, the Byzantine-Sassanid campaign to return Khosrow Parviz to the throne of power, the period of political relations between the years 591-602 and the internal problems of Byzantium and the signs of the revival of the Sassanid-Byzantine conflict. The revival of military war between 603-621 A.D., such as the Phocas-Parviz conflict (602-610 A.D.), among these are the Sassanid campaigns (603-610 A.D.), the campaign against Upper Mesopotamia and the campaign against Armenia are also included, the conflicts of the Heraclius-Parviz era (610-628 A.D.), among them are the Heraclian Revolution and Emperor Heraclius and the conflicts (610-622 A.D.), the reasons for the defeat of the Byzantine Empire until the year 622.

In the third chapter of this book, the final phase of the Sassanid-Byzantine war and its effects on ancient Kurdistan is discussed and it consists of two parts, on the final phase of the conflict between 622-630 A.D., such as the preparations and organizations of Heraclius to confront Parviz, the campaigns of Heraclius between the years 622 - 625 A.D., the resolution of the Sassanid-Byzantine issue in Kurdistan, Heraclius and the struggle for the Sassanid throne of power. The effects of the Sassanid-Byzantine conflict on ancient Kurdistan such as political, religious, and economic effects.