Siege of Antioch (253)
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Sassanid siege and capture of Roman Antioch (253)
| Siege of Antioch (253) | |||||||
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| Part of Shapur I's second Roman campaign | |||||||
 Map of Antioch in Roman times. | |||||||
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| Roman Empire | Sassanid Empire | ||||||
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Shapur I Hormizd I[3] | ||||||
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The siege of Antioch took place when the Sassanids under Shapur I besieged the Roman city of Antioch in 253 after defeating the Romans in the Battle of Barbalissos.[4]
- ↑ A Companion to Late Antiquity, "In a devastating campaign in AD 253, Shapur ravaged northern Syria, took Hierapolis, managed to penetrate Roman territory as far as Antioch, and captured this third largest city of the Roman empire."
- ↑ Foundation, Encyclopaedia Iranica. "Welcome to Encyclopaedia Iranica". iranicaonline.org.
- ↑ Shayegan 2004, pp. 462–464.
- ↑ "ŠĀPUR I: History – Encyclopaedia Iranica". www.iranicaonline.org.
Further reading
Glanville, Downey (1961). A History of Antioch in Syria from Seleucus to the Arab Conquest. 10.8 pp. 252–259, 587
- Shayegan, M. Rahim (2004). "Hormozd I". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. XII, Fasc. 5. pp. 462–464.
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