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According to Armenian tradition, attempts at demolishing churches and building fire-temples were made and a number of Zoroastrian magi were sent, with Persian military backing, to replace Armenian clergy and suppress Christianity.

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  • Battle of Avarayr
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  • According to Armenian tradition, attempts at demolishing churches and building fire-temples were made and a number of Zoroastrian magi were sent, with Persian military backing, to replace Armenian clergy and suppress Christianity.
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  • 20000(xsd:integer)
  • 66000(xsd:integer)
  • 120000(xsd:integer)
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Date
  • 0451-05-26(xsd:date)
Commander
Caption
  • A medieval Armenian miniature representing the battle
Casualties
  • Heavy.
  • Unknown. Heavier than Armenian casualties.
Result
  • Long-term Armenian victory
  • Pyrrhic Sassanid military victory
combatant
Place
  • Avarayr Plain, Canton of Artaz, Vaspurakan, Armenia
  • (Poldasht, Poldasht District, Maku County, West Azarbaijan Province, north-western Iran)
Conflict
  • Battle of Avarayr
abstract
  • According to Armenian tradition, attempts at demolishing churches and building fire-temples were made and a number of Zoroastrian magi were sent, with Persian military backing, to replace Armenian clergy and suppress Christianity. But Yazdegerd's policy created, rather than forestalled, a Christian rebellion in Armenia. When news about the compulsion of the nobles reached Armenia, a mass revolt broke out; on their return, the nobility, led by Vardan Mamikonian, joined the rebels. Yazdegerd II, hearing the news, gathered a massive army to attack Armenia. Vardan Mamikonian sent to Constantinople for aid, as he had good personal relations with Theodosius II, who had made him a general, and he was after all fighting to remain in the Orthodox Church; but this assistance did not arrive in time.
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