Regional551 CE

Battle of Petra

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Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Petra (551), part of the Byzantine-Persian Wars. Byzantium defeated Persia.

Belligerents2

Byzantine Empire
Persia

ON THE MAPByzantine Empire (Justinian–Maurice)Sassanid Empire

Conflict graph

PART OFByzantine–Sasanian wars

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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