Major conflict53 BCE

Battle of Carrhae

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Carrhae · Mesopotamia

Estimated casualties

20Ksingle estimate · no range published

Crassus's crushing defeat by the Parthians, ending Roman hopes for eastern conquest and becoming a humiliation.

Belligerents2

Rome
Parthia

ON THE MAPRoman RepublicParthian Empire

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Carrhae (53 BCE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/carrhae-battle · Sources & methodology