Significant48 BCE – 47 BCE · 1 year

Alexandrine War

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
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Alexandria · Nile Delta

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Caesar's siege at Alexandria supporting Cleopatra VII against her brother Ptolemy XIII, including the burning of the Library.

Belligerents3

Caesarian Rome
Ptolemaic Egypt
Kingdom of Pergamum

ON THE MAPPtolemaic Egypt

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Alexandrine War (48 BCE – 47 BCE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/alexandrine-war · Sources & methodology