Editing Khosrow II (section)

=== Fight ===
[[File:The Night Attack of Bahram Chubina on the Army of Khusraw Parvis LACMA M.2009.44.3 (2 of 8).jpg|thumb|right|Bahram Chobin fighting Sasanian loyalists near [[Ctesiphon]]]]
Bahram Chobin, however, ignored his warning—a few days later, he reached the [[Nahrawan Canal]] near Ctesiphon, where he fought Khosrow's men, who were heavily outnumbered, but managed to hold Bahram Chobin's men back in several clashes. However, Khosrow's men eventually began losing their morale, and were in the end defeated by Bahram Chobin's forces. Khosrow, together with his two uncles, his wives, and a [[retinue]] of 30 nobles, thereafter fled to Byzantine territory, while Ctesiphon fell to Bahram Chobin.{{sfn|Howard-Johnston|2010}} Bahram Chobin declared himself king of kings in the summer of 590, asserting that the first Sasanian king [[Ardashir I]] ({{reign|224|242}}) had usurped the throne of the [[Parthian Empire|Arsacids]], and that he now was restoring their rule.{{sfn|Shahbazi|1988|pp=514–522}}

Bahram Chobin tried to support his cause with the [[Zoroastrianism|Zoroastrian]] [[Apocalypse|apocalyptic]] belief that by the end of [[Zoroaster]]'s millennium, chaos and destructive wars with the Hephthalites/Huns and the Romans occurs and then a savior would appear. Indeed, the Sasanians had misidentified Zoroaster's era with that of the [[Seleucids]] (312 BC), which put Bahram Chobin's life almost at the end of Zoroaster's millennium, he was therefore hailed by many as the promised savior Kay Bahram Varjavand.{{sfn|Shahbazi|1988|pp=514–522}} Bahram was to re-establish the [[Arsacid Empire]] and commenced a new millennium of dynastic rule. He started minting coins, where he is on the front imitated as an exalted figure, bearded and wearing a [[crenellation]]-shaped crown with two crescents of the moon, whilst the reverse shows the traditional [[fire altar]] flanked by two attendants.{{sfn|Shahbazi|1988|pp=514–522}} Regardless, many nobles and priests still chose to side with the inexperienced and less dominant Khosrow II.{{sfn|Shahbazi|1988|pp=514–522}}

In order to get the attention of the Byzantine emperor [[Maurice (emperor)|Maurice]] (r. 582–602), Khosrow II went to [[Syria (Roman province)|Syria]], and sent a message to the Sasanian occupied city of [[Silvan, Diyarbakır|Martyropolis]] to stop their resistance against the Byzantines, but with no avail.{{sfn|Greatrex|Lieu|2002|p=172}} He then sent a message to Maurice, and requested his help to regain the Sasanian throne, which the Byzantine emperor agreed with; in return, the Byzantines would re-gain sovereignty over the cities of [[Diyarbakır|Amida]], [[Harran|Carrhae]], [[Dara (Mesopotamia)|Dara]] and [[Silvan, Turkey|Martyropolis]]. Furthermore, Iran was required to stop intervening in the affairs of [[Kingdom of Iberia (antiquity)|Iberia]] and [[Armenia]], effectively ceding control of [[Lazica|Lazistan]] to the Byzantines.{{sfn|Howard-Johnston|2010}}