This article will be permanently flagged as inappropriate and made unaccessible to everyone. Are you certain this article is inappropriate? Excessive Violence Sexual Content Political / Social
Email Address:
Article Id: WHEBN0003158640 Reproduction Date:
Roman–Sasanian Wars
Byzantine–Sasanian wars
The Battle of Resaena or Resaina, near present day Ceylanpınar, Turkey, was fought in 243 AD between the forces of the Roman Empire, led by the Emperor Gordian III and the Praetorian Prefect Timesitheus against a Sassanid Empire army, led by King Shapur I.[1] The Romans were victorious.[1]
The battle was fought during a campaign ordered by Emperor Gordian III to retake the Roman cities of Hatra, Nisibis[1] and Carrhae. These territories, in fact, had been conquered by Shapur and, before him, by his father King Ardashir I, when the Roman Empire was plagued with the internal wars from pretenders to the throne.[1]
Following this victory the Roman legions recovered Nisibis and Singara, and advanced by way of the Khabur to the Euphrates. Intending to take Ctesiphon, Gordian's army was defeated at the battle of Misiche in 244.[2] Gordian was either killed during the battle[3] or assassinated afterwards.[4]
Byzantine Empire, Roman Republic, Crisis of the Third Century, Pompeii, Tacitus
Syrian Civil War, Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
Killed in action, Göktürks, Caucasus, Plutarch, Jerusalem
Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia, United Kingdom, Syria
Roman Empire, Pupienus, Balbinus, Galerius, Byzantine Empire
Roman Empire, Armenia, Roman–Persian Wars, Sassanid Empire, Crisis of the Third Century
Byzantine Empire, Egypt, Paris, Antioch, Christianity
Wikisource, Rome, Livy, Carthage, Second Punic War
Syria, Roman Empire, Roman legion, Ras al-Ayn, al-Hasakah, Sassanid Empire