Significant38 BCE

Battle of Mount Gindarus

Gindarus, near Antioch, Roman Syria

Estimated casualties

0single estimate · no range published

Ancient figures unreliable / no reliable estimate.

SOURCEunrecorded

The Roman general Publius Ventidius Bassus defeated and killed the Parthian prince Pacorus I at Mount Gindarus in Syria, avenging the earlier Roman disaster at Carrhae. The victory drove the Parthians back across the Euphrates and stabilized Rome's eastern frontier.

Belligerents2

  • Roman Republic
  • Parthian Empire

ON THE MAPRoman RepublicParthian Empire

Conflict graph

PART OFRoman-Parthian Wars

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Battle of Mount Gindarus
  2. Cassius Dio, Roman History
  3. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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