Regional264 BCE

Battle of Messana

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Italy

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Messana (264 BCE), part of the 1st Punic War. Rome defeated Syracuse, Carthage.

Belligerents3

Rome
Syracuse
Carthage

ON THE MAPRoman RepublicCarthaginian Empire

Conflict graph

PART OFFirst Punic 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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