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Heads of State

Year of the Water sheep癸未( at the beginning of the year Water Horse壬午)

Era of Diocletian: 219/220 ( year November )

Syria: 814/815 (October)

Events

  • After initial willingness to negotiate, the Eastern Roman Emperor Anastasius I send in the Roman- Persian war against the Sassanid king Kavadh I. an army of 52,000 men. However, this is defeated, the responsibility for the defeat of the Flavius ​​Hypatius.
  • Possible year of the Battle of Mons Badonicus; see also 500

Born

  • Abraham Kaschkar, founder of the revival of the Assyrian monastery movement, († 588 )

Died

  • Narsai of Nisibis, Nestorian church teachers ( * after 410)
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