The Roman–Parthian Wars (54 BC – 217 AD) were a series of conflicts between the Parthian Empire and the Roman Republic and Roman Empire. It was the first...
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world, beginning with the Roman Republic and the Parthian Empire in 54 BC and ending with the Roman Empire (including the Byzantine Empire) and the Sasanian...
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The Roman–Parthian War of 161–166 (also called the Parthian War of Lucius Verus) was fought between the Roman and Parthian Empires over Armenia and Upper...
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The Roman–Parthian War of 58–63 or the War of the Armenian Succession was fought between the Roman Empire and the Parthian Empire over control of Armenia...
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internal civil wars, revolts and rebellions, see List of Roman civil wars and revolts. Wars with the Romans and the Sabines Conquest of Cameria War with Fidenae...
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The Parthian war of Caracalla was an unsuccessful campaign by the Roman Empire under Caracalla against the Parthian Empire in 216–17 AD. It was the climax...
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relations Greece–Iran relations Parthia Romans in Persia Roman Empire Byzantine Empire Roman–Persian Wars Roman–Parthian Wars Sasanian dynasty Acacius of Amida...
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Trajan's Parthian campaign was engaged by Roman emperor Trajan in 114 against the Parthian Empire in Mesopotamia. The war was initially successful for...
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Battle of Carrhae (redirect from Roman Invasion of Parthia)
the Roman Republic and the Parthian Empire near the ancient town of Carrhae (present-day Harran, Turkey). An invading force of seven legions of Roman heavy...
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Antony's Atropatene campaign (redirect from Roman-Parthian War of 40–33 BC)
as Antony's Parthian campaign, was a military campaign by Mark Antony, the eastern triumvir of the Roman Republic, against the Parthian Empire under...
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Mesopotamia in the Roman–Parthian Wars of the next few centuries, capturing the cities of Seleucia and Ctesiphon. Frequent civil wars between Parthian contenders...
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The Roman–Parthian War of 194–198 involved the Roman armies' success over the Parthians for supremacy over the nearby Kingdom of Armenia. After this defeat...
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The Seleucid–Parthian Wars were a series of conflicts between the Seleucid Empire and the Parthian Empire which resulted in the ultimate expulsion of...
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state and advancing the Roman eastern frontier to the Euphrates, where Romans met for the first time the territory of the Parthians. Mark Antony, in his...
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Battle of Rhandeia (category Battles of the Roman–Parthian Wars)
Armenian-Parthian forces and the Roman army. The clash took place near Rhandeia, with the Armenian troops led by Tiridates I and the Parthian forces commanded...
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Roman–Parthian Wars Siege of Edessa (165), Roman–Parthian Wars Siege of Edessa (503), Roman–Persian Wars Siege of Edessa (544), Roman–Persian Wars Siege...
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Ctesiphon (116), part of the Roman–Parthian Wars (Trajan v. Osroes I) Battle of Ctesiphon (165), part of the Roman–Parthian Wars (Lucius Verus v. Vologases...
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Septimius Severus (redirect from Roman emperor Severus (Lucius Septimius Severus))
provinces, Severus waged another brief, more successful war in the east against the Parthian Empire, sacking their capital Ctesiphon in 197 and expanding...
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and the Parthian Empire, as well as the Sasanian Empire that succeeded the latter, and the casus belli for several of the Roman–Persian Wars. Only in...
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The following is a list of wars fought between Romans and Persians. Roman/Byzantine victory Parthian/Sasanian victory Inconclusive Dio, 40.29.3...
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Battle of the Cilician Gates (category Battles of the Roman–Parthian Wars)
for the Roman general Publius Ventidius over the Parthian army and its Roman allies who served under Quintus Labienus in Asia Minor. Parthian forces made...
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Marcus Licinius Crassus (category People of the Roman–Parthian Wars)
was appointed as the governor of Roman Syria, which he used as the launchpad for a military campaign against the Parthian Empire. Crassus' campaign was a...
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King Orodes II sent a Parthian force under Prince Pacorus I and Pompeian General Quintus Labienus in 40 BC to invade the eastern Roman territories while Antony...
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Gaius Cassius Longinus (category People of the Roman–Parthian Wars)
Crassus in his eastern campaign against the Parthian Empire as quaestor. In 53 BC, Crassus led the Roman army at the Battle of Carrhae in Northern-Mesopotamia...
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Siege of Antioch (51 BC) (category Battles of the Roman–Parthian Wars)
51-50 BC between the Romans and the Parthians, following a raid by the latter against the region of Antioch in Syria. Roman–Parthian relations had deteriorated...
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Augustus' Eastern policy (category Roman–Parthian Wars)
Tiberius' army produced the desired effect on the Parthian king. Faced with the danger of a Roman invasion that could have cost him the throne, Phraates...
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Surena (redirect from Soren (Parthian general))
for defeating the Romans in the Battle of Carrhae. Under his command, the Parthians decisively defeated a numerically superior Roman invasion force under...
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Marcus Titius (category People of the Roman–Parthian Wars)
Civil Wars 5.133-136; Cassius Dio, Roman History, 49.18.1-3; Orosius 6.19.2. Appian, Civil Wars 5.137-139 Appian, Civil Wars 5.140. Appian, Civil Wars 5.140-144;...
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Vologases IV (category People of the Roman–Parthian Wars)
of his reign re-asserting Parthian control over the Kingdom of Characene. From 161 to 166, he waged war against the Roman Empire; although initially...
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Siege of Edessa (163) (category Roman–Parthian Wars)
place in 163 when the Parthian Empire, under Vologases IV, besieged the city of Edessa, held by the Roman Empire. The Parthians captured Edessa and installed...
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