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Kardarigan had first appeared as commander of …
Years: 585 - 585
Kardarigan had first appeared as commander of the Persian forces in northern Mesopotamia in late 582, when he opposed a Byzantine invasion of Arzanene under John Mystacon and defeated him at a battle at the river Nymphius.
In the campaign of 583, he laid siege to the fort of Aphumon, but had abandoned the siege to help repel an imperial attack on the newly constructed fort of Akbas.
While he was preparing an incursion into Byzantine territory in autumn 584, he had been forced to turn east to counter an imperial invasion under Philippicus.
In 585, while Philippicus falls ill, Kardarigan goes on the offensive, besieging the imperial base of Monocarton.
The siege fails, and he then marches north to …
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- Persian people
- Persian Empire, Sassanid, or Sasanid
- East, or Oriens, Praetorian prefecture of
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Years: 585 - 585
Locations
People
Groups
- Persian people
- Persian Empire, Sassanid, or Sasanid
- East, or Oriens, Praetorian prefecture of
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Justinian dynasty
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
- Pontus, Diocese of
Topics
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions