Regional480 BCE

Battle of Himera

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Italy

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Himera (480 BCE), part of the Carthaginian Invasion of Sicily. Syracuse defeated Carthage.

Belligerents2

Syracuse
Carthage

ON THE MAPCarthaginian Empire

Conflict graph

PART OFSicilian Wars (Greek–Punic)

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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