Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome

History of Ancient Rome.

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Ancient Rome

The Battle of Edessa was a battle between the armies of the Roman Empire under the command of Emperor Valerian and Sassanid forces under Shahanshah Shapur I in 260. The Roman army was defeated and ...

Battle of Misiche

History; Ancient history

The Battle of Misiche was a battle between the Sassanid Persians and the Romans somewhere in ancient Mesopotamia in the winter of 244 AD. It ended with a Sassanid victory. The Romans were defeated ...

Battle of Dara

History; Ancient history

The Battle of Dara was a battle between the Sassanids and the Byzantine Empire in 530. It was one of the battles of the Iberian War. The Sassanid were at war with the Byzantine Empire from 507, ...

Battle of Nineveh

History; Ancient history

The Battle of Nineveh was the deciding battle of the Byzantine-Sassanid War of 602–628. The Byzantine victory broke the power of the Sassanid dynasty and for a period of time restored the empire to ...

Battle of Melitene

History; Ancient history

The Battle of Melitene in 575 (according to other sources 576) marked a major victory of the Eastern Roman Empire against the Persian Sassanid Empire in the long series of wars that the two great ...

Emperor Justin II

History; Ancient Rome

He was the emperor of eastern Rome from 565 to 578, during his reign the Persians overran Syria and captured an important city Dara which led to Justin losing his mind. This prompted him to name his ...

Trebonianus Gallus

History; Ancient Rome

Governor of Moesia Superior, proclaimed emperor by Danubian legions after Trajan Decius's death (and in opposition to Hostilian); made his son Volusianus co-emperor in late 251 AD.