Carrhae

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

Considering that the Syrian-Armenian frontier was more-or-less contested continually from the first major battle between Rome and Persia at Carrhae until the Romaioi were driven out of the region at Yarmuk, it seems incredible that the Parthians made no major moves.

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But he was eventually murdered by his own soldiers on campaign while relieving himself on the road near Carrhae in modern Turkey on 8 April 217.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

Carrhae Modern Harran in the extreme south of Turkey on its Syrian border.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

He escaped annihilation with Crassus at Carrhae, then governed Syria extremely well at the ripe old age of thirty.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Carrhae Modern Harran in the extreme south of Turkey on its Syrian border.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Before he took up his triumvirate, the summer palace of the King of the Parthians at Ecbatana held seven Roman Eagles, lost when Marcus Crassus and seven legions were exterminated at Carrhae.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Before he took up his triumvirate, the summer palace of the King of the Parthians at Ecbatana held seven Roman Eagles, lost when Marcus Crassus and seven legions were exterminated at Carrhae.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

When Crassus fell at Carrhae, the general in command of the Parthian army had been an effeminate, painted prince named the Surenas, who devised a way to ensure that his horse archers did not run out of arrows: he loaded trains of camels with spare arrows and got them to his men.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Since that day more than ten years in the past, a controversy had raged as to whether it had been the horse archers who won Carrhae, or the cataphracts.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007