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[[File:Four gates pagoda shandong 2006 09.jpg|upright=1.35|thumb|The [[Four Gates Pagoda]] ([[China]])]]
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Year '''611''' ('''[[Roman numerals|DCXI]]''') was a [[common year starting on Friday]] of the [[Julian calendar]]. The denomination 611 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [[Anno Domini]] [[calendar era]] became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

== Events ==
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=== By place ===
==== Persian Empire ====
* [[Byzantine–Sassanid War of 602–628#Persian ascendancy|Byzantine–Persian War]]: The Persian army under [[Shahrbaraz]] captures [[Antioch]], and most of the remaining Byzantine [[Fortification|fortress]]es in [[Syria]] and [[Mesopotamia]]. King [[Khosrau II]] is re-establishing a neo-[[Sassanid Empire|Persian Empire]], and intensifies his war effort. The [[Byzantine army]], ruined by defeat and [[corruption]], offers only half-hearted opposition.

==== Britain ====
* [[Cynegils of Wessex|Cynegils]] becomes king of the [[Anglo-Saxons|West Saxons]], or [[Wessex]], after the death of his uncle [[Ceolwulf of Wessex|Ceolwulf]] (according to the ''[[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]''). He rules from 611 to 643 and shares power to some extent with his eldest son, [[Cwichelm of Wessex|Cwichelm]], who may have been given Upper Wessex (approximate date).

=== By topic ===
==== Religion ====
* The [[Four Gates Pagoda]], located in central [[Shandong]] [[Provinces of the People's Republic of China|Province]] ([[East China]]), is completed.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Wang|first1=Eugene Yuejin|title=Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China|date=2005|publisher=University of Washington Press|isbn=978-0-295-98462-9|page=321|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8X2bNasjuW4C&pg=PA321|language=en}}</ref></onlyinclude>

== Births ==
* [[July 7]] &ndash; [[Eudoxia Epiphania]], daughter of [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] emperor [[Heraclius]] 
* [[Pope Leo II|Leo II]], Pope of the [[Catholic Church]] (d. [[683]])

== Deaths ==
* [[Arnoald]], [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Metz|Bishop of Metz]] (approximate date)
* [[Ceolwulf of Wessex|Ceolwulf]], king of [[Wessex]] (approximate date)
* [[Comentiolus (brother of Phocas)|Comentiolus]], Byzantine general (approximate date)
* [[Romilda of Friuli]], regent duchess of Friuli (approximate date)

== References ==
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