Regional397 BCE

Battle of Motya

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Italy

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Motya (397 BCE), part of the 1st Dionysian War. Carthage defeated Syracuse.

Belligerents2

Carthage
Syracuse

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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