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