country_of_citizenship azarmidokht
Azarmidokht ( Middle Persian : zarmgdukht , Persian :      ) was Sasanian queen of Persia from to 630 to 631 , and daughter of Khosrau II . She ruled Persia after her cousin Shapur - i Shahrvaraz . Middle Persian is the Middle Iranian language or ethnolect of southwestern ___MASK31___ that during the Sasanian Empire ( 224  654 ) became a prestige dialect and so came to be spoken in other regions of the empire as well . Middle Persian is classified as a Western Iranian language . It descends from Old Persian and is the linguistic ancestor of Modern Persian . The Old Persian language is one of the two directly attested Old Iranian languages ( the other being Avestan ). Old Persian appears primarily in the inscriptions , clay tablets , and seals of the Achaemenid era ( c . 600 BCE to 300 BCE ). Examples of Old Persian have been found in what is now present - day ___MASK31___ , Romania ( Gherla ), Armenia , Bahrain , Iraq , Turkey and Egypt , the most important attestation by far being the contents of the Behistun Inscription ( dated to 525 BCE ). Recent research into the vast Persepolis Fortification Archive at the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago have unearthed Old Persian tablets ( 2007 ). This new text shows that the Old Persian language was a written language in use for practical recording and not only for royal display . The Sasanian Empire ( or ), also known as Sassanian , Sasanid , Sassanid or Neo - ___MASK38___ ), known to its inhabitants as rnshahr in Middle Persian , was the last imperial dynasty in Persia ( ___MASK31___ ) before the rise of Islam , ruled by and named after the Sasanian dynasty from 224 to 651 AD . The Sasanian Empire , which succeeded the Parthian Empire , was recognized as one of the leading world powers alongside its neighboring arch - rival the Roman - Byzantine Empire , for a period of more than 400 years .