Shapur II besieged the fortress city of Bezabde in Zabdicene in 360, held by the Romans. Despite adamant resistance from three Roman legions and local...

Shapur II (Middle Persian: 𐭱𐭧𐭯𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭩 Šābuhr, 309–379), also known as Shapur the Great, was the tenth Sasanian King of Kings (Shahanshah) of Iran....

the Roman attack. The Romans had lost Bezabde earlier that year to the Sasanians following a siege led by Shapur II. Crow 2018a, p. 235. Whitby 2013, p...

(master of horse) of the East, during the events of the siege. When Shapur II took control of the Sasanian Empire, he sought to regain old territories...

army was led by King Shapur II of Persia. It is the only one of the nine pitched battles recorded to have been fought in a war of over twenty years, marked...

Sareisa, Satalca and Pinaca (northwest of Bezabde), and considered its inhabitants (Gordyaeans) as descendants of the ancient Carduchians. According to...

– Civil wars of the Tetrarchy Siege of Amida (359) – 359 – Perso-Roman wars of 337–361 (Roman–Persian Wars) Shapur II's siege of Bezabde – 360 – Perso-Roman...

King Shapur II attacked and conquered Bezabde. According to Notitia Dignitatum, II Parthica was in Cepha, Turkey, around 400, under the command of the...

difficult siege again captured Amida (359). In the following year he captured Bezabde and Singara, and repelled the counter-attack of Constantius II. But the...

the two sieges of Singara in 346 and 348. Callu, following H. Scholze, has noted that the localization in Ancyra is given only in the title of the oration...