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LIST OF THE PERSIAN MONARCHS. 
A. D. 
Justinian. Mahomed the Arch-impostor was born about ten years before 
the death of this truly great monarch. 
579.Hormuz III.; dethroned, A. D. 590. 
590 .Baharam Chouban, a usurper. 
591 .Khosroo Purviz, 
The son of Hormuz III. This prince made himself master of Jerusalem. 
The celebrated beauty, Shereen, or Shirene, was his queen, who sacrificed 
herself on his grave. 
628. Schirouch, Ghubad, or Kobad, reigned eight months. 
Ardashir, reigned seven months. 
Pooran-Dokht, or Tooran-Dokht. 
This princess was raised to the throne on the death of all her brothers, 
being the daughter of Khosroo Purviz. She reigned sixteen months, 
and was succeeded by her cousin, or lover, 
Shah Shenendaii, who reigned only one month, succeeded by 
Arzem-Dokht. 
This princess was another daughr.v of Khosroo Purviz; and, after some 
confusion, the throne was filled by 
632.Yezdijird, — Isdejirtes III. of the Greeks. 
The son of Schirouch, grandson of Khosroo Purviz, and the last of the 
Sassanian race. He lost his kingdom to the Arabs, or Saracens under 
Ojnar, A. D. 641; and his life shortly after, by the hands of a treacherous 
peasant, with whom he had sought shelter. His family, from the time of 
Ardashir Babigan to himself, had ruled Persia four hundred and fifteen 
years; and in his overthrow it thus became subject to the 
651. Caliphs of Bagdad, 
Who governed Persia, by means of viziers, or rather different lines of 
independent princes, under that inferior title. To these succeeded the 
Sultans of Ghizni, 
A Turkoman race; of whom Mahmoud’s name is particularly illustrious, 
having gathered together the fragments of ancient Persian history which 
had escaped destruction by the caliphs. After the sultans came the 
SELJOOKEE DYNASTY, 
A Tartar tribe, who, with their Attabeg followers, governed Persia above 
two hundred years; until Halukoo, the son of Zingis, or Ghengis Khan, 
established the 
