Regional609 CE

Battle of Dhi Qar

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Dhi Qar · near al-Hira · southern Iraq

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

An early-7th-century clash (commonly dated c. 609-611) in which the Arab Banu Bakr confederation defeated a Sasanian Persian expedition near Dhi Qar in southern Iraq, remembered as a symbolic blow to Persian prestige over the Arabs.

Belligerents2

Banu Bakr (Arab tribal confederation)
Sasanian Empire

ON THE MAPSassanid Empire

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Dhi Qar
Encyclopaedia Iranica: Du Qar
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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