Stelle Gens Persarum, prosiliens sedibus, ...; (Chronica Byzantina-Arabica (741 - 743), Chroniques Anni 741, 2018 (Gil, ed.), §10 (pp. 310-11)) [1420]

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Keywords	Keyword: augustus, [wurzel: august] Keyword: gens, [wurzel: gent] Ethnonym: Persae, [wurzel: Pers] Keyword: princeps, [wurzel: princip] Keyword: provincia, [wurzel: provinci] Keyword: regnum (kingdom, realm), [wurzel: regn] Ethnonym: Romani, [wurzel: roman]
ID	1420
Text	Chronica Byzantina-Arabica (741 - 743) Anonymous - History
Quotation	Gens Persarum, prosiliens sedibus, iterum sibi uicinas prouincias repentinis obreptionibus stimulat. Filius quoque Cosdroae Persarum regis patrem fugiens principi se Romano obtulit, sperans se armis Romanie defensurum atque patris regnum spondens Augusto traditurum
Translation	The Persians, breaking out from their homes again, disturbed the provinces neighbouring them by means of surprise incursions. Also the son of Cosdroas the king of the Persians, fleeing his father, offered himself to the Roman princeps, hoping to defend himself by the arms of Rome and promising to hand over his father's kingdom to the Augustus. (Al-Tamimi, trans., “Byzantine-Arabic Chronicle”, 2019)
Summary	Here the Chronica Byzantina Arabica recounts the expansion of the Persians into surrounding provinces, and political interactions between the son of the Persian king and the Romans.
Quotation source	Chroniques Anni 741, 2018 (Gil, ed.), §10 (pp. 310-11)
Temporal Coverage	612 - 621
Associated use case(s)	An Iberian View on the Early Muslim Conquests. Byzantium, the Arabs, and Hispania in the First Christian-Iberian Chronicles After the Fall of the Visigothic Kingdom
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