{{Short description|Ancient Sasanian city}} {{inline|date=January 2024}} [[File:Sasanian Asoristan and its surroundings.svg|right|thumb|Map of Asoristan and its surrounding provinces]] '''Dastagird''' (also spelled as '''Dastgerd''', '''Dastigird''' and '''Daskara'''), was an ancient Sasanian city in present-day Iraq, and was close to its capital, Ctesiphon.
Originally known as Artemita, the city was rebuilt and renamed by king Hormizd I (r. 270-271). During the reign of king Khosrow I (r. 531-579), the city greatly expanded and had its own court, palace and fortress. During this period, the city also got a secondary name, '''Khosrow-shad-Kavadh.''' During the reign of the latter's grandson, Khosrow II (r. 590-628), Dastagird became a royal residence of the Sasanians. In 628, Dastagird was sacked by the Byzantine emperor Heraclius. After that, the city completely disappears from sources.
==Sources== * {{cite book|author1=Fisher, William Bayne |author2=Yarshater, Ehsan |title=The Cambridge History of Iran: The Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanian periods|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y7IHmyKcPtYC&q=papa&pg=PA931 | isbn=978-0-521-24693-4 | year=1983 | publisher=Cambridge University Press}} *{{cite book|last=Pourshariati|first=Parvaneh|title=Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran|location=London and New York|publisher=I.B. Tauris|year=2008|isbn=978-1-84511-645-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I-xtAAAAMAAJ}} *{{cite encyclopedia | last = Howard-Johnston | first = James | title = ḴOSROW II | url = http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/khosrow-ii | year = 2010 | encyclopedia = Encyclopaedia Iranica, Online Edition | access-date = 25 October 2014}} *{{Citation | last = Kaegi| first =Walter Emil | author-link=Walter Kaegi | title =Heraclius: Emperor of Byzantium| publisher =Cambridge University Press| year =2003|isbn = 0-521-81459-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tlNlFZ_7UhoC|postscript=.}}
{{coord missing|Iraq}}
Category:Sasanian cities Category:Former populated places in Iraq Category:Khosrow II
{{Iran-hist-stub}} {{Iraq-geo-stub}}