Bahram II of Persia (original) (raw)

Bahram II, king of Persia (277-294), son of Bahram I.

During his reign the emperor Carus attacked the Persians and conquered Ctesiphon (283), but died by the plague.

Of Bahram II�s reign some theological inscriptions exist (F Stolze and JC Andreas, Persepolis (Berlin, 1882), and EW West, "Pahiavi Literature" in Grundriss d. iranischen Philologie, ii. pp. 75-129).

This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.