Regional279 BCE

Battle of Asculum, Apulia

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Italy

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Asculum, Apulia (279 BCE), part of the Pyrrhic War . Epirus defeated Rome.

Belligerents2

Epirus
Rome

Conflict graph

PART OFPyrrhic War

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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