Mount Ararat with the historic Khor Virap monastery visible at center-left

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The Armenians lost the Battle of Avarayr militarily — Vardan and most commanders fell. Yet the Persian victory was pyrrhic: Sassanid forces suffered disproportionate casualties and Yazdegerd II, facing threats elsewhere, could not sustain his forced-conversion campaign. Within decades, Persia quietly abandoned the policy it had gone to war to impose.

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Armenia

The Armenians lost the Battle of Avarayr militarily — Vardan and most commanders fell. Yet the Persian victory was pyrrhic: Sassanid forces suffered disproportionate casualties and Yazdegerd II, facing threats elsewhere, could not sustain his forced-conversion campaign. Within decades, Persia quietly abandoned the policy it had gone to war to impose. 

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