Back حصار أنطاكية (253) Arabic انطاکیه موحاصیرهسی (۲۵۳) AZB محاصره انطاکیه (۲۵۳) Persian Անտիոքի պաշարում (253) Armenian Assedio di Antiochia (252) Italian Cerco de Antioquia (253) Portuguese Antakya Kuşatması (253) Turkish
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| Siege of Antioch (253) | |||||||
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| Part of the Roman-Persian wars | |||||||
&sq=NATO&lang=en&file=File:Antiochia_su_Oronte.PNG) Map of Antioch in Roman times. | |||||||
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| Roman Empire | Sassanid Empire | ||||||
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Shapur I Hormizd I | |||||||
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| unknown | unknown | ||||||
The siege of Antioch took place when the Sassanids under Shapur I besieged the Roman city of Antioch in 253 after defeating the Romans in the Battle of Barbalissos.
- ^ A Companion to Late Antiquity, "In a devastating campaign in AD 253, Shapur ravaged northern Syria, took Hierapolis, managed to penetrate Roman territory as far as Antioch, and captured this third largest city of the Roman empire."
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