Significant235 CE – 285 CE · 50 years
Crisis of the Third Century
Italy · Bulgaria · Syria · Croatia
Estimated casualties
Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.
Half-century of usurpations, civil wars and invasions in the Roman Empire between the death of Severus Alexander and the accession of Diocletian.
Belligerents6
- Rome
- Goths
- Emperor Gallienus
- Palmyra
- Alemmani
- Scythians
ON THE MAPRoman Empire (Late)
Conflict graph
SUB-CONFLICTS · 19
- Battle of Carthage, Tunisia238 CE
- Battle of Aquileia240 CE
- Battle of Verona249 CE
- Battle of Nicopolis ad Istrum250 CE
- Battle of Philippopolis250 CE
- Battle of Abrittus251 CE
- Battle of Mursa260 CE
- Battle of Illyricum261 CE
- Battle of Nestus267 CE
- Battle of Lake Benacus268 CE
- Battle of Mediolanum268 CE
- Battle of Nish269 CE
+ 7 more in the atlas.
Sources
- Derived from HCED child battles; see Wikipedia
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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Cite as: Crisis of the Third Century (235 CE – 285 CE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/crisis-of-the-third-century · Sources & methodology