VMs: The Era of Yazdagird is also a (12x30+5)-day year...

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.uscolo.edu/history/seminar/khusraw/khusraw2.htm

***As a good Muslim, our author, of course, dates his journal according to 
the Year of the Flight (with the Arabic months), which is lunar, and, 
therefore, fails to correspond with the seasons. The ancient Persian year 
of the Era of Yazdagird was, however, in use among his countrymen. It was 
solar, consisted of twelve months, of thirty days each (with five days 
intercalary), and began on the 21st of March of each year (Nauruz-New 
Year's Day), when the sun enters Aries.

The Persian months are
1. Farwardin (corresponding generally with April, but beginning on the 21st 
of March).
2. Ardibihisht (May).
3. Khurdad (June).
4. Tir (July).
5. Murdid (August).
6. Shahriwar (September).
7. Mihr (October).
8. Aban (November).
9. Azur (December).
10. Dai (January).
11. Bahman (February).
12. Isfandarmuz (March).
The Era of Yazdagird is dated from the first year of the reign of that king 
(A.D. 632), the last of the Sassanians.

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Also known as "Yazdegird" or "Yezdigird".

http://www.ncsu.edu/provost/offices/diversity/caldiv.html

The Zoroastrian Calendar:
Begun with the coronation of the last Zoroastrian Sasanian King, Yazdegird 
II, 1 Y (Yazdegird).