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Edessa, Battle of

Years: 260 - 260

The Battle of Edessa take place between the armies of the Roman Empire under the command of Emperor Valerian and Sassanid forces under Shahanshah (King of the Kings) Shapur I in 260.

The Roman army is defeated and captured in its entirety by the Persian forces, including Valerian himself.

“And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.”

― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life (2010)