<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Nineveh_(627)" id="mwEQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Nineveh (627)">Battle of Nineveh</a>: A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" id="mwEg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine</a> army under Emperor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclius" id="mwEw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Heraclius">Heraclius</a> defeats Emperor <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khosrau_II" id="mwFA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Khosrau II">Khosrau II</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasanian_Empire" id="mwFQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sasanian Empire">Persian</a> forces, commanded by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhahzadh" id="mwFg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Rhahzadh">General Rhahzadh</a>.<sup about="#mwt15" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"}}' id="cite_ref-1" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_12#cite_note-1" id="mwFw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwGA">[1]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"><cite about="#mwt12" class="citation cs2" id="CITEREFKaegi2003"><a href="./Walter_Kaegi" id="mwBcQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Walter Kaegi">Kaegi, Walter Emil</a> (2003), <i id="mwBcU">Heraclius: emperor of Byzantium</i>, Cambridge University Press, pp.<span id="mwBcY" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC&amp;pg=PA161" id="mwBcc" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">161–162</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBcg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBck" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-521-81459-1" id="mwBco" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-521-81459-1"><bdi id="mwBcs">978-0-521-81459-1</bdi></a></cite><span about="#mwt12" class="Z3988" id="mwBcw" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Heraclius%3A+emperor+of+Byzantium&amp;rft.pages=161-162&amp;rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&amp;rft.date=2003&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-521-81459-1&amp;rft.aulast=Kaegi&amp;rft.aufirst=Walter+Emil&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+12"></span></span>