Regional540 CE

Battle of Dara

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Turkey

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Dara (540), part of the Byzantine Persian Wars. Byzantium defeated Sassanid Persia.

Belligerents2

Byzantine Empire
Sasanian Empire

ON THE MAPByzantine Empire (Justinian–Maurice)Sassanid Empire

Conflict graph

PART OFByzantine–Sasanian wars

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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