Regional280 BCE

Battle of Heraclea, Lucania

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Italy

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Heraclea, Lucania (280 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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