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  List of battles 1400 BC-600 AD
Battle of Himera[?] The Carthaginians under Hamilcar are defeated by the Greeks of Sicily, led by Gelon[?] of Syracuse.
Battle of Sellasia[?] Defeat of Cleomenes III[?] of Sparta by Antigonus Doson[?] of Macedon and the Achaean League[?]
357 Battle of Strasbourg (357)[?] Julian expels the Alamanni from the Rhineland
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 List of battles 1400 BC-AD 600
Battle of Naupactus Phormio defeats the Peloponnesian fleet.
Battle of Coronea King Agesilaus II of Sparta defeats the Thebans.
357 Battle of Strasbourg Julian expels the Alamanni from the Rhineland
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  List of battles before 601 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Battle of Himera The Carthaginians under Hamilcar are defeated by the Greeks of Sicily, led by Gelon of Syracuse.
Battle of Lautulae The Romans are defeated by the Samnites.
Battle of Faesulae The Romans are defeated by the Gauls of Northern Italy.
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 List of Roman battles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Battle of Cape Ecnomus - A Carthaginian fleet under Hamilcar and Hanno is defeated in an attempt to stop a Roman invasion of Africa by Marcus Atilius Regulus.
Battle of Herdonia - Hannibal destroys the Roman army of the praetor Gnaeus Fulvius.
Battle of the Metaurus - Hasdrubal is defeated and killed by Nero's Roman army.
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 List of Roman battles - Wikinfo
Battle of Herdonia - Hannibal destroys the Roman army of the praetor Gnaeus Fulvius.
357 - Battle of Strasbourg (357) - Julian expels the Alamanni from the Rhineland
447 - Battle of the Utus - Attila the Hun is defeated by the East Romans in an indecisive battle
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 List of Roman battles
316 BC - Battle of Lautulae - Romans are defeated by the Samnites.
225 BC - Battle of Faesulae - Romans are defeated by the Gauls of Northern Italy.
357 - Battle of Strasbourg (357) - Julian expels the Alamanni from the Rhineland
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Pescennius Niger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
140–194) was a Roman usurper from 193 to 194.
Niger was defeated at Cyzicus and Nicea (193) and then, definitively, at Issus (194); forced to retreat to Antioch, Niger was killed while attempting to flee to Parthia.
The Battle of Nicaea was fought in 193 between the forces of Septimus Severus and his eastern rival, Pescennius Niger.
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 NPNF2-02. Socrates and Sozomenus Ecclesiastical Histories | Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Ambrose, 193, 209, 211; when governor, elevated to bishopric of Milan, 361; persecuted by Justina, 384; reproaches Theodosius, 394; obtains favor from Gratian, 394; orders deposition of Gerontius of Nicomedia, but is disobeyed, 403.
Eunomius, 207; Arian bishop of Cyzicus, 351; his heresy not new, 363; acknowledges indebtedness to Aetius, 364; described by Gregory Nazianzen, 364; secedes from Arians, 379; banished by Theodosius, dies, 387, 388.
Gregory Nazianzen, 193, 199; a source for Sozomen, 223; hated by Julian, 340; attends council of Tyana, 353; becomes bishop of Nazianzus, 356; and of Constantinople, 356; doctrine of, concerning the Holy Ghost, 359; describes Apolinarianism and Eunomianism, 364; leader of orthodox, 378; translated to Constantinople, abdicates, 380.
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 Battle of Cyzicus (193)
The Battle of Cyzicus was fought in 193 between the forces of Septimus Severus and his rival for the empire, Pescennius Niger.
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 The Cambridge Ancient History - Cambridge University Press
But his defeat in a battle to the west of the city and his subsequent withdrawal to Antioch undermined his chances of organizing further resistance.
Severus’ second wife was Julia Domna, daughter of the priest of Baal at Emesa, who was a descendent of the old ruling dynasty there, and she bore him two sons, Bassianus, born on 4 April 188, and Geta, born on 7 March 189.
However, at the battle of Lugdunum on 19 February 197 the Severan forces won a decisive victory, although casualties were enormous.
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 Roman Emperors - DIR Pescennius Niger
After Pertinax became emperor at the beginning of 193, many in Rome may have hoped that the elderly Pertinax would adopt Niger as his Caesar and heir, but Pertinax was murdered without having made succession plans.
By the autumn of 193, Severus had left Rome and arrived in the region, though his armies there continued to be commanded by supporters.
Not long after, in late December 193 or early January 194, Niger was defeated in a battle near Nicaea and fled south to Antioch.
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 Asellius Aemilianus
Here, we find him in 193, when the emperor Pertinax was killed and civil war broke out between three men - Asellius' relative Clodius Albinus, the governor of Britain; the governor of Pannonia Superior Septimius Severus; and Pescennius Niger, Asellius' successor as governor of Syria.
Asellius preferred the latter and was immediately sent to Cyzicus, on the southern shore of the Sea of Marmora, where he and a mixed corps of volunteers and legionaries would have to defend Asia and support Pescennius' European bulwark Byzantium.
The two armies fought a battle, Asellius was defeated, fled, and was killed.
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 A CHRONOGRAPHY OF POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS CONFLICT
202 BCE Hannibal is defeated at the Battle of Zama.
An indecisive battle near the confluence of the Margus (modern Morava) and Danube rivers, not far from present-day Belgrade, would have been a defeat for Diocletian had Carinus not been assassinated by a group of soldiers.
According to the account given by the Christian apologist Lactantius, Constantine fought the Battle of the Milvian Bridge (312) in the name of the Christian God, having received instructions in a dream to paint the Christian Cross on the shields of his troops.
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 Roman Timeline of the Second Century AD
193 AD Septimus Severus is proclaimed as emperor of Rome, as is Pescennius Niger and Clodius Albinus.
193 AD Completion of the Column of Marcus Aurelius, in honor of his victories over the Marcomanni.
194 AD Battles between the forces of Pescennius Niger and Septimus Severus near the city of Cyzicus and Nicea.
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 Pescennius Niger
The advance guards of the opposing armies met at Perinthus, the capital of Thrace.
Niger himself now hastened to the scene but was defeated near Nicæa, with the result that most of the cities of the Province of Asia came into the hands of Severus.
The possession of this city was decided by a battle fought south of Issus in which Pescennius Niger was defeated.
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 Pescennius Niger
On 28 March 193, eighty-six days after the murder of Commodus, a sedition broke out in the camp of the imperial guard.
He had proclaimed the beginning of a new 'Golden age' after the dictatorial rule of Commodus and Julianus, and had received recognition from every province in the east, from the Parthian king Vologases V, and from the ruler of Hatra, a small kingdom in Mesopotamia.
The soldiers of the army of the Danube preferred the governor of Pannonia Superior, Septimius Severus, as emperor (9 April 193).
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 Year of the Six Emperors information - Search.com
The Year of the Six Emperors refers to AD 193, in which there were six claimants for the title of Roman Emperor.
The year 193 opened with the murder of Commodus on New Year's Eve, 31 December 192 and the proclamation of the City Prefect Pertinax as Emperor on New Year's Day, 1 January 193.
Pertinax was assassinated by the Praetorian Guard on 28 March 193.
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 Ancient coinage of Boeotia
B.C. After the battle of Coroneia (B.C. 447), when the Boeotian League, upon the expulsion of the Athenians, was reconstituted under her hegemony, Thebes began to consolidate her authority throughout Boeotia and monopolized the right of coining money.
B.C. After the disastrous battle of Chaeroneia a Macedonian garrison was placed in the Cadmeia, and three years afterwards Thebes was destroyed by Alexander.
From B.C. 374-338 Thespiae was subject to Thebes and struck no coins, but after the battle of Chaeroneia it obtained the right of coining in bronze.
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 The Imperial Roman Legions - XII
He judged that "from the loss of their bravest men and the panic of the remainder, (they) seemed quite unfit for battle." Both legions were sent back to Syria, in disgrace.
For in that year Arrian, Governor of Cappadocia, recorded his orders of march and of battle to be followed in the face of an expected attack by the Alans.
Men of the legion were part of the army led by Niger's Proconsul of Syria Asellius Aemilianus, which was defeated at the Battle of Candeto (near Cyzicus) in December 193.
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 Cyzicus - Research the news about Cyzicus - from HighBeam Research
He was Metropolitan of Cyzicus before he was elected Patriarch in 715; soon afterwards he anathematized the Monothelites.
Athens to hear the Socratics when about 23, later spent time in Egypt studying astronomy with the priests, then lectured in Cyzicus and the Propontis, visited the court of Mausolus, and finally returned to teach at Athens, where he was acquainted with Plato...
Isolation and properties of the hemoglobin of the clam shrimp Cyzicus cf.
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 ionia - NumisWiki, The Collaborative Numismatics Project
This period extends from the Peace of Antalcidas to the battle of Ipsus.
The autonomous silver coinage of Clazomenae does not extend beyond the battle of Ipsus, and the victory of Seleucus and Lysimachus over Antigonus and Demetrius.
The smaller denominations are coins of 32.4 and 19.3 grs.
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 Freemasonry, Pirates, the Jolly Roger, and Mithraism
The cult of Mithra contained a special interest for Roman soldiers, for Mithra himself had been for centuries a god of battle, and his was a strong masculine cult appealing to reverential and superstitious soldiers.
The life of a Mithraist was understood as a long battle in which, with Mithra's help, he did war against the principles and powers of evil.
After this battle, Henry Morgan was the undisputed king of the buccaneers.
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 Antiochus III the Great Summary
When Antiochus's son died suddenly in 193, rumors of assassination flourished, the anti-Roman faction gained strength, and in 192 war erupted in Greece.
The campaigns of 219 BC and 218 BC carried the Seleucid armies almost to the confines of Ptolemaic Egypt, but in 217 BC Ptolemy IV confronted Antiochus at the battle of Raphia and inflicted a defeat upon him which nullified all Antiochus's successes and compelled him to withdraw north of the Lebanon.
But that recovery proved brief, for in 198 BC Antiochus defeated Scopas at the Battle of Panium, near the sources of the Jordan, a battle which marks the end of Ptolemaic rule in Judea.
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 List Of Roman Battles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
3rd century BC - Battle of Camerinum - Samnites defeat the Romans under Lucius Cornelius Scipio in the first battle of the Third Samnite War.
249 BC - Battle of Drepana - Carthaginians under Adherbal defeat the fleet of Roman admiral Claudius Pulcher.
1st century BC Battle of Fucine Lake - Roman forces under Lucius Porcius Cato are defeated by the Italian rebels in the Social War
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 Category:Battles of the Roman Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This category contains historical battles in which the Roman Empire (31 BC–476) participated.
Articles in category "Battles of the Roman Empire"
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 The Hellenistic World from Alexander to the Roman Conquest - Cambridge University Press
The armies of Eumenes and Antigonus at the battle of Paraetacene (autumn 317)
The army of Antiochus Ⅲ at the battle of Raphia (217)
The internal consequences of the battle of Raphia
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 ROMAN BATTLES
262 BC - Battle of Agrigentum - Carthaginian forces under Hannibal Gisco and Hanno are defeated by the Romans, that attain control of most of Sicily.
243 - Battle of Resaena - Roman forces under Gordian III defeat the Persians under Shapur I. Gordian is murdered before he can exploit his victory.
447 - Battle of the Utus - Attila the Hun is defeated by the East Romans in an indecisive battle
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 Rome Unleashed - The Year of the Six Emperors
After Pertinax's assassination, he saw his opportunity for power and seized it by means of a huge bribe to the praetorian guard (25,000 sesterces to each member).
In April of 193 AD, though, two would-be emperors declared their bids for power.
Severus, supported by the senate, overthrew Julianus (who was executed on the second of June) and then defeated Niger by crossing the Sea of Marmara and winning battles at Cyzicus and Nicaea.
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 Detail Page
Following the battle of Cyzicus in 193, the Severan forces were able to secure a solid position in Bithynia.
Niger, anxious to deny them any further advance, moved his troops into the neighborhood of Nicaea, now his headquarters.
"Nicaea, Battle of." Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire.
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 Septimius Severus - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
By the time of the civil war in 193 he had secured the support of the majority of Roman forces in Europe, who proclaimed him emperor.
He engineered the support of the African governor of Britain Clodius Albinus, whom he named as Caesar to his Augustus and was able to march on Rome with to depose the current ruler Didius Julianus.
Severus left Rome to pursue him, with fighting taking place in 194 around the Hellespont - Niger was faced by the general Fabius Cilo at Perinthus, and after altercations in Nicaea and Cyzicus he was killed after a battle near Issus.
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 Philostorgius, Ecclesiastical History
Magnentius, however, having suffered this defeat from Constantius, afterwards recovered his strength by degrees, and, engaging with him in a second battle, was entirely defeated, and fled away to Lyons with the loss of nearly all his army.
And when, on account of the heat, that place was infected with a very terrible pestilence, this impious forger of lies declares that Aetius appeased the Divinity and warded off these calamities, and was treated in consequence by the barbarians with the greatest kindness and respect.
Eunomius, however, refused to submit to their consecration until he had received from them a pledge that Aetius should be set 471 free from his sentence of banishment and deposition.
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