Significant193 CE – 197 CE · 4 years

Year of the Five Emperors

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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Turkey · Iraq · France

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Civil wars after the murder of Commodus, won by Septimius Severus over Pescennius Niger and Clodius Albinus.

Belligerents6

Pescennius Niger
Rome
Parthia
Septimius Severus
Emperor Severus
Decimus Claudius Albinus

ON THE MAPRoman Empire (Late)Parthian Empire

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 4

Battle of Cyzicus194 CE
Battle of Nicaea194 CE
Battle of Lugdunum197 CE
Battle of Ctesiphon198 CE

Sources

Derived from HCED child battles; see Wikipedia
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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