Iranians History on This Day

Nov 14






Three years drought in Iran
This piece of history will be completely edited later On 14 November 467 AD, after three years of severe drought in Iran, it started raining and continued for one week, and Pirooz Sassanid, the then king of Iran, issued the orders that every year, from that year, this week should be celebrated. The three years of drought coincided with the repeated invasions of the northeast tribes, known as Hepthalites, and finally, to prevent their aggressions, Pirooz decided to build a strong fortification in Gorgan, a wall like the china wall, remains of which is called ‘Alexander’s Wall’ by the local people. The three years drought had so badly weakened the spirit of the Iranians that they could not succeed to fight the Hepthalites. Translation by Rowshan Lohrasbpour (AmordadNews writer)