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	Legion XXIV - Time Line of Republican Rome
		401 BC Battle of Cunaxa, First Persian Civil War, near Babylon, in which Cyrus of Persia was killed in an attempt (with a Spartan and Greek contingent) to seize the Persian throne from his brother Artaxerxes II.
		207 BC Battle of Metaurus (south of Fano on Adriatic coast of Italy), 2nd Punic War (219-202) where Marcus Livius and Claudius Nero and Roman force of 50,000 defeated a Carthginian army (50,000 with war elephants) under Hasdrubal (brother of Hannibal) and was the turning point in expelling the Carthginians from Italy.
		249 BC Carthaginians defeat Romans at sea near Drepana (n/w Sicily)
	www.legionxxiv.org /republictimeline

	Scholars Aim to Change Date of Historic Marathon Run
		The second part of his message was that the Persians were defeated but still attacking, with another attack to come by sea.
		The story of Pheidippides and his run is detailed in historical writings of Herodotus, the great Greek historian; Plutarch, the great Roman historian; and other ancient sources.
		That is the conclusion of a group of astronomers who base their conclusions on research incorporating the writings of Herodotus and the lunar charts of Sparta.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /articles/currentevents/marathondatechange.htm (516 words)

	Roman Military History
		O’Neill, J.C., “The Mocjing of Bar Kokhba and of Jesus,” Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period 31 (2000), pp.
		Woolliscroft, D.J., The Roman Frontier on the Gask Ridge, Perth and Kinross, The Tayside and Fife Archaeological Committee Monograph 3.
		Isaac, Benjamin, “Roman Colonies in Judaea: The Foundation of Aelia Capitolina,” Talanta (1980/81) pp.
	academics.vmi.edu /history_rms/roman.htm (516 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Battle Descriptions
		Battle of Yarmuk, A.D. During the reign of Heraclius this battle was fought between Romans and Arabs in the Jordan valley in the Roman province of Palestine.
		The Romans were surprised by a Dacian attack at Tapae (near the village of Bucova, in Romania).
		As the main bodies clashed, the Roman left, deploying late, was caught by a force of Gothic cavalry and collapsed.
	www.roman-emperors.org /assobd.htm (516 words)

	Welcome to Lonelythinker.com
		Boyne - William's War against James II Teutoburg Forest - Roman-Goth Wars
		Leningrad - World War II Marathon - Greek-Persian Wars
		100 most important battles of all time and the wars in which they were fought
	www.lonelythinker.com /hist323.html (516 words)

	I's of the World: Interview #1
		Roman Northern Frontier Wars 25-16, Roman Eastern Frontier Wars 20-19, Trung Sisters' Rebellion 39-43, Roman Conquest of Britain 43-61, Roman-Parthian War 56-61, Boudicca's Rebellion (Iceni) 60-61, Roman Civil War (Nero) 68-69, Jewish Revolt 66-73, Jerusalem, Siege of (Titus) 70, Masada, Siege of 72-73, Mons Graupius (Grampians), Battle of 84.
		Chalukyan War against Harsha 620, Chinese-Cham War 605, Chalukyan War against Harsha 620, Mecca-Medina War 624-630, Sino-Korean War 610-614, Oswald's Wars 633-641, Byzantine-Muslim War 633-642, Chinese War against the Eastern Turks 629-630, Sino-Tibetan War 641, Chinese War against the West.
		Phocas' Mutiny 602, Byzantine-Avarian War 603-626, Byzantine-Persian War (Heraclius) 603-628,
	butdad.blogspot.com /2005/01/interview-1.html (847 words)

	I's of the World: Interview #1
		Roman Northern Frontier Wars 25-16, Roman Eastern Frontier Wars 20-19, Trung Sisters' Rebellion 39-43, Roman Conquest of Britain 43-61, Roman-Parthian War 56-61, Boudicca's Rebellion (Iceni) 60-61, Roman Civil War (Nero) 68-69, Jewish Revolt 66-73, Jerusalem, Siege of (Titus) 70, Masada, Siege of 72-73, Mons Graupius (Grampians), Battle of 84.
		Chalukyan War against Harsha 620, Chinese-Cham War 605, Chalukyan War against Harsha 620, Mecca-Medina War 624-630, Sino-Korean War 610-614, Oswald's Wars 633-641, Byzantine-Muslim War 633-642, Chinese War against the Eastern Turks 629-630, Sino-Tibetan War 641, Chinese War against the West.
		Yes a lot of people die in wars and the human race never seems to learn.
	butdad.blogspot.com /2005/01/interview-1.html (847 words)

	Jew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Defeats in the Jewish-Roman Wars in the years 70 CE and 135 notably contributed to the numbers and geography of the diaspora, as significant numbers of the Jewish population of the Land of Israel were expelled and sold to slavery throughout the empire.
		Jews were subject to explusions from England, France, and the Holy Roman Empire throughout the Middle Ages, with most of the population moving to Eastern Europe and especially Poland, which was uniquely tolerant of the Jews through the 1700s.
		The 2,000 year dispersion of the Jewish diaspora beginning under the Roman Empire, as Jews were spread throughout the Roman world and, driven from land to land, and settled wherever they could live freely enough to practice their religion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jew (5434 words)

	COLCHIS - LoveToKnow Article on COLCHIS
		Petra was recaptured in 551 and Archaeopolis was held by the Romans against the Persian general Mermeroes.
		From this time till the era of the Mithradatic wars nothing is known of its history.
		At a remote period it seems to have been incorporated with the Persian empire, though the inhabitants evidently enjoyed a considerabre degree of independence; in this condition it was found by Alexander the Great, when he invaded Persia.
	85.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CO/COLCHIS.htm (5434 words)

	Struggle Between Parties
		The Mithradatic wars, therefore, are to be connected with the Persian wars of 490-480 B. C., and with the conquests of Alexander, as one other phase of the great contests between East and West which have centered time and again about the Mediterranean Sea.
		The War of the Allies (Social War), 90-88 B. The death of Drusus, their champion, was the signal for a revolt of the Italian allies, headed by the strongest members of the Roman state in central and southern Italy, the Marsians, Samnites, and Lucanians.
		This was the war with Mithradates, king of Pontus, in which several of the Roman leaders won that military renown necessary to catch and hold the attention of the people.
	www.sacredspiral.com /Database/rome/rome27.html (5434 words)

	Roman Infantry
		The main opponents of Greek Hoplites were the soldiers of the Persian Empire, and Roman Legionaries during later wars.
		But the Greek-Persian wars, being begun by Darius' invasion of Greece, was ended by Alexander The Great's campaign in Persia.
		The majority of the Persian infantry was armed with composite short bows.
	www.gauntletinternational.com /Zvezda-SetDetails.htm (2008 words)

	The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Chapter 40
		In the three succeeding chapters, I shall relate the wars of Justinian, which achieved the conquest of Africa and Italy; and I shall follow the victories of Belisarius and Narses, without disguising the vanity of their triumphs, or the hostile virtue of the Persian and Gothic heroes.
		The Persian war, A.D. The unkind parsimony of Anastasius was the motive or pretence of a Roman war;
		That Gothic chief had rendered himself popular by the civil war which he boldly waged against Anastasius for the defence of the orthodox faith, and after the conclusion of an advantageous treaty, he still remained in the neighborhood of Constantinople at the head of a formidable and victorious army of Barbarians.
	www.ccel.org /g/gibbon/decline/volume2/chap40.htm (2008 words)

	Colchis
		From this time till the era of the Mithradatic wars nothing is known of its history.
		At a remote period it seems to have been incorporated with the Persian empire, though the inhabitants evidently enjoyed a considerable degree of independence; in this condition it was found by Alexander the Great when he invaded Persia.
		At the time of the Roman invasion it seems to have paid a nominal homage to Mithradates the Great and to have been ruled over by Machares, his second son.
	www.theezine.net /c/colchis.html (2008 words)

	Colchis
		From this time till the era of the Mithradatic wars nothing is known of its history.
		At a remote period it seems to have been incorporated with the Persian empire, though the inhabitants evidently enjoyed a considerable degree of independence; in this condition it was found by Alexander the Great when he invaded Persia.
		At the time of the Roman invasion it seems to have paid a nominal homage to Mithradates the Great and to have been ruled over by Machares, his second son.
	www.ukpedia.com /c/colchis.html (2008 words)

	Archaeological World in Roman & Greek period
		During the Mithradatic wars between 88-84 B.C., the Romans punished the Caunians because of their opposition by submitting them to the Rhodian rule which they seriously disliked.
		This quotation sheds light on the significance of Caunus during the Persian wars in the third quarter of the sixth century B.C. Since here it was mentioned as a district like Caria, and Lycia, it is to be concluded that it was an independent center including some other cities.
		After 190-167 B.C., when it was under the rule of Rhodes for a while, it was again independent in 167-129 B.C., and was integrated in 129 B.C. to the Province of Asia established by the Romans.
	www.archaeology-classic.com /turkey/kaunus.html (2008 words)

	Colchis
		From this time till the era of the Mithradatic wars nothing is known of its history.
		At a remote period it seems to have been incorporated with the Persian empire, though the inhabitants evidently enjoyed a considerable degree of independence; in this condition it was found by Alexander the Great when he invaded Persia.
		At the time of the Roman invasion it seems to have paid a nominal homage to Mithradates the Great and to have been ruled over by Machares, his second son.
	www.fastload.org /co/Colchis.html (2008 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts news Ancient Persian treasures on show
		But the empire, which flourished from 550BC until the sacking of Persepolis by Alexander in 330BC, was almost as big as the Roman, stretching "from the Aral Sea to the Persian Gulf, and from the River Indus to Libya", according to the exhibition's curator, John Curtis.
		As for the Graeco-Persian wars, Athens' proudest moment, when it defeated King Xerxes and ushered in the golden age, Dr Curtis is dismissive.
		"The Persian kings never attempted to to impose their own religion on different parts of the empire - in this respect they were enlightened," he said.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/news/story/0,11711,1552136,00.html (384 words)

	The (East) Romans (or the Byzantines) - Sura30
		A clear consciousness of history is displayed here, as it was in the previous chapter; the references is to the current wars then being waged between the Byzantine or Eastern Roman Empire and the Persian Empire in the days of the Prophet.
		The (East) Romans (or the Byzantines)- Sura30
		The chapter also has some lyric passages on the glory of God (II) and His signs (III).
	www.isgkc.org /EnglishQuran/sura30.htm (384 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts news Ancient Persian treasures on show
		As for the Graeco-Persian wars, Athens' proudest moment, when it defeated King Xerxes and ushered in the golden age, Dr Curtis is dismissive.
		But the empire, which flourished from 550BC until the sacking of Persepolis by Alexander in 330BC, was almost as big as the Roman, stretching "from the Aral Sea to the Persian Gulf, and from the River Indus to Libya", according to the exhibition's curator, John Curtis.
		The greatest of all ancient civilisations was, according to a forthcoming show at the British Museum, the Persian empire.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/news/story/0,11711,1552136,00.html (384 words)

	Hellenic_civilization
		The period from 1600 BC to about 1100 BC is described in History of Mycenaean Greece known for the reign of King Agamemnon and the wars against Troy as narrated in the epics of Homer.
		In particular, he wanted to be accepted as the new leader of Greece in recovering the freedom of the Greek cities of Asia from Persian rule.
		As Greece recovered economically, its population grew beyond the capacity of its limited arable land, and from about 750 BC the Greeks began 250 years of expansion, settling colonies in all directions.
	www.comicscomics.com /search.php?title=Hellenic_civilization (3166 words)

	"Byzantine" Literature: Compiled Update
		It is a "what- if" collection of short stories about a Byzantine agent of the Bureau of Barbarians set in the 14th century of a world where Mohammed, converted to Christianity and became one of the pillars of Byzantine society and as a result the Byzantine and Persian empires were never overthrown by Islam.
		No wars or grave matters, these stories are playful and entertaining looks at Byzantine life and the imperial court.
		Pretty weird, and only tangentially Byzantine, but there's a little historical work on the Roman empire behind it.
	www.uni-heidelberg.de /subject/hd/fak7/hist/o1/logs/byzans-l/log.started950301/mail-162.html (3166 words)

	SparkNotes: Early Middle Ages (475-1000): Post-Roman Europe I: Italy and Southern Gaul From Theodoric to the Lombards (488-600)
		This is especially the case when we consider that the new Persian wars were not simply massive raiding expeditions as before.
		Western Romans simply would not regard Arian Christians as being of the same confessional group as they were.
		In effect, the system was dualistic: Roman law, practice, religion (Catholicism), taxes, and language for the indigenous Italians, as opposed to Germanic kingship, tribal Ostrogothic (as well as Rugian) law, Arianism, and military duties for the German newcomers, who were outnumbered by native Italians.
	www.sparknotes.com /history/european/middle1/section1.html (3166 words)

	islamic_period_1.htm
		Islamic Umayyad dynasty founded, establishes imperial capital in Damascus, makes use of Byzantine and Persian officials of previous administrations, chiefsecretary of Caliph Mu�awiya a Syrian Christian.
		639 C.E. Arab Muslim invasion of Egypt begins, 3,000 Muslim Yemenite cavalry capture border town of El Arish, Arabs march on Byzantine Roman forces near present site of Cairo.
		Death of al-Kindi, "Philosopher of the Arabs," studied Greek thought, of Arab descent, wrote at least 265 works on music, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, ethics, logic and metaphysics, tried to reconcile teachings of Aristotle to Islam.
	www.ben-keshet.com /prophecy/islamic_period_1.htm (3166 words)

	Anastasius I (emperor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The principal wars in which Anastasius was engaged were those known as the Isaurian and the Persian.
		He was born at Dyrrhachium not later than A.D. At the time of the death of Zeno (491), Anastasius, a palace official (silentiarius), held a very high character, and was raised to the throne of the Roman empire of the East, through the choice of Ariadne, Zeno's widow, who married him shortly after his accession.
		The emperor was a convinced Monophysite, but his ecclesiastical policy was moderate; he endeavoured to maintain the principle of the Henotikon of Zeno and the peace of the church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roman_Emperor_Anastasius_I (3166 words)

	Why Rome Fell
		As if the civil wars were not enough to fill full the cup of woe, in the East the second Persian empire raided as far as Antioch and took the Emperor Valerian prisoner.
		In a word, though seemingly prosperous, in the second century AD the Roman empire was overspending to such an extent that it was moving to an economic crisis.
		Such is a brief sketch of the ordeal through which the Roman world passed in the one hundred and five years from the death of Marcus Aurelius to the accession of Diocletion.
	mars.acnet.wnec.edu /~grempel/courses/wc1/lectures/14romefell.html (3166 words)

	AllRefer.com - Asia Minor (Turkey Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		B.C.) of Asia Minor by the Persians led to the Persian Wars.
		A.D. 395 the country was re-Hellenized and became part of the Eastern Roman, or Byzantine Empire.
		Alexander the Great incorporated the region into his empire, and after his death it was divided into small states ruled by various Diadochi (rulers).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/AsiaMino.html (3166 words)

	SIXTH CENTURY, PERSIAN WARS, ALEXANDER THE GREAT, AND THE ROMAN EMPIRE
		In 333B.C. the Cypriots joined forces with Alexander the Great in the wars against Persia and the Eastern Empires.
		In the sixth century B.C. the Athenian statesman, Solon, was invited to the kingdom of Salamis.
		After Alexander died his empire was split up and Cyprus went to the Ptolemean Kingdom.
	www.angelfire.com /il/oaetos/romans.html (3166 words)

	hremperors2
		Emperor Heraclius finally terminated a long series of wars with the Persians by a decisive victory in 628 and the recovery of Persian-occupied Syria, Palestine, and Egypt.
		Charles VI (Holy Roman Empire) (1685-1740), Holy Roman emperor (1711-1740) and, as Charles III, king of Hungary (1712-1740), the son of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, born in Vienna.
		Conrad was crowned Holy Roman emperor by the pope in 1027.
	website.lineone.net /~johnbidmead/hremperors2.htm (8585 words)

	Middle East: Teacher Tips
		It touches upon the Hittites, Ionia, the Persian Wars, Alexander the Great, and the Romans.
		This article traces the history of Ephesus from its foundation through Roman times, focussing on the worship of Cybele/Artemis/Diana as the patron goddess-'til the Christians came along.
		The Team experiences the siege of the ancient port city of Miletus by Alexander the Great, and learns about its maritime and cultural dominance.
	www.worldtrek.org /odyssey/teachers/ttips/021200ttips.html (8585 words)

	I's of the World: Interview #1
		Burgundian-Frankish War 500, Visigothic-Frankish War 506-507, Ghassanid-Lakhmid Wars (Lakhmid) 500-583, Roman-Persian War 502-506, Justinian's First Persian War 524-532, Burgundian - Frankish War 524-534, Vandal-Roman War in North Africa 533 534, Nika Revolt 532, Ly Bon's Rebellion 541-547, Justinian's Second Persian War 539-562, Roman-Persian War 572-591, Aethelfrith's Wars 593-616, Byzantine-Avarian War 595-602.
		Roman Northern Frontier Wars 25-16, Roman Eastern Frontier Wars 20-19, Trung Sisters' Rebellion 39-43, Roman Conquest of Britain 43-61, Roman-Parthian War 56-61, Boudicca's Rebellion (Iceni) 60-61, Roman Civil War (Nero) 68-69, Jewish Revolt 66-73, Jerusalem, Siege of (Titus) 70, Masada, Siege of 72-73, Mons Graupius (Grampians), Battle of 84.
		Kaffir War, Eighth 1850-1853, Taiping Rebellion 1850-1864, Anglo-Burmese War, Second 1852, Turko-Montenegrin, First 1852-1853, Crimean War 1853-1856, Walker's Invasion of Mexico 1853-1854, Tukulor-French Wars 1854-1864, Persian-Afghan War 1855-1857, Yakima Wars 1855-1858, Seminole War, Third 1855-1858, Wakarusa War 1855, Anglo-Persian War 1856-1857, Pahang Civil War 1857-1863, Venezuelan Civil War 1858-1864.
	butdad.blogspot.com /2005/01/interview-1.html (8585 words)

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