'On September 9, 1924, the Parsees celebrated the' advent of the political New Year, the 1,204th of the era of Yezdezard, the last of the Persian monarchs of the Sassan-jan Dynasty.
The celebrated Battle of Ne-havend, fought in the year 650 between the Arab army sent by Caliph Omar, under the command ff the famous general No'main ben Mokarren, and the Persians under the immediate command of King Yerdexard, sealed the doom of the Persian Empire. The Persian Army sustained @ disastrous and signal defeat, and was annihilated and almost wiped out, and King. Yeudezard, who fled to Seistan, and then to Merv, was assassinated by a Persian miller, who at first gave him shelter in his mill, but who could not resist the ' glittering glamour of gold and valuable jewels hidden on his monarch's person, succumbing to the temptation to take possession of them. The modern Parsees count their era from the year of the fall of this their last monarch Yezdezard Sheheriar.
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