Major conflict280 BCE – 275 BCE · 5 years

Pyrrhic War

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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Italy · Sicily · Southern Italy

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

King Pyrrhus of Epirus's campaign against Rome in Southern Italy, a strategic failure despite tactical victories.

Belligerents3

Rome
Epirus
Greek city-states

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 4

Battle of Heraclea, Lucania280 BCE
Battle of Asculum, Apulia279 BCE
Battle of Lilybaeum277 BCE
Battle of Beneventum275 BCE

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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