{"id":5162,"date":"2025-09-15T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/?p=5162"},"modified":"2025-09-14T17:58:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T15:58:29","slug":"map-of-the-sassanid-empire-620","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/mapas-historicos\/mapa-del-imperio-sasanida-620\/","title":{"rendered":"Map of the Sassanid Empire (620)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1092-Mapa-del-Imperio-Sasanida-620-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1092-Mapa-del-Imperio-Sasanida-620-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Map of the Sassanid Empire (620)\" class=\"wp-image-5217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1092-Mapa-del-Imperio-Sasanida-620-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1092-Mapa-del-Imperio-Sasanida-620-18x10.jpg 18w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1092-Mapa-del-Imperio-Sasanida-620-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1092-Mapa-del-Imperio-Sasanida-620-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1092-Mapa-del-Imperio-Sasanida-620-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1092-Mapa-del-Imperio-Sasanida-620-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1092-Mapa-del-Imperio-Sasanida-620-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This map, published by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldhistory.org\/user\/simeonnetchev\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Simeon Netchev<\/a>\u00a0According to World History Encyclopedia, it represents the extent of the Sassanid Empire in the year 620, under the rule of Emperor Khosrow II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sassanid Empire was established in 224 and remained one of the great powers of antiquity until the mid-7th century, when it was taken over by the Muslim conquest of the Middle East. It is considered the second great Persian empire of antiquity, the first being <a href=\"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/historical-maps\/map-of-the-expansion-of-the-achaemenid-empire-500-bc\/\" title=\"Map of the expansion of the Achaemenid Empire (500 BC)\">the Achaemenid Empire<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the illustration, the author uses different colours to show the expansion of the Sassanid Empire:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In <strong>brown<\/strong> The territory is shown at the time of Emperor Kavad I's death in 531.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In <strong>orange<\/strong>, the territory conquered by Emperor Khosrow I between 531 and 579.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In <strong>yellow<\/strong>, the territory conquered by Emperor Khosrow II between 591 and 628.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In <strong>grated orange<\/strong>, the territory of the Byzantine Empire occupied by the Sassanid Empire in the year 620.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The map also shows the entire territory occupied by the Byzantine Empire, in purple, the main power that the Sassanid Empire faced during this period of expansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sources<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldhistory.org\/image\/16853\/map-of-the-sassanid-empire-c-620-ce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Map of the Sassanid Empire c. 620 CE<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This map, published by Simeon Netchev for World History Encyclopedia, depicts the extent of the Sassanid Empire in the year 620, under... <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow66TFDA:productID":"","iawp_total_views":298,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[203,1661,1663,274,1662,467,468],"class_list":["post-5162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mapas-historicos","tag-203","tag-1661","tag-imperio-sasanida","tag-oriente-medio","tag-siglo-vii","tag-simeon-netchev","tag-world-history-encyclopedia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mapstodon.space\/@mapasmilhaud\/115206833427717752","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}