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The Battle of Nisibis was fought in the summer of 217 between the armies of the Roman Empire under the newly ascended emperor Macrinus and the Parthian army of King Artabanus IV. It lasted for three days, and ended with a bloody Parthian victory, with both sides suffering large casualties.
A final war against the Parthians was launched by the emperor Caracalla, who sacked Arbela in 216, but after his assassination, his successor Macrinus lost a battle against the Parthians at Nisibis and was forced to pay tribute to Parthia, that was the last engagement of the Parthian Wars. [23]
The army spent the winter at Edessa, but Caracalla was assassinated on 8 April 217 while urinating at a roadside. [11] The Parthians regrouped, fighting the Romans to a bloody standstill at the Battle of Nisibis. [12] His successor, Macrinus, brought the war to an end in 218 by paying the Parthians reparations of possibly as much as 50 million ...
The name Battle of Nisibis can refer to one of six battles fought near the city of Nisibis in northern Mesopotamia: The Battle of Nisibis (217) between the Romans and the Parthians; The Battle of Nisibis (541) between the Sassanids under Nabedes and the Byzantines under Belisarius.
Summer – Battle of Nisibis: A Roman army, under the command of Macrinus, is defeated in a three days' battle by the Parthians at Nisibis, in the province of Mesopotamia. King Artabanus V signs a peace treaty with Rome after he receives 200 million sesterces, for the rebuilding of towns destroyed during the war in Parthia.
Macrinus was at first occupied by the threat of the Parthians, with whom Rome had been at war since the reign of Caracalla. Macrinus settled a peace deal with the Parthians after fighting an indecisive battle at Nisibis in 217. [27] In return for peace, Macrinus was forced to pay a large indemnity to the Parthian ruler Artabanus IV.
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