Battle of Resaena

Battle of Resaena
	Part of Roman-Persian Wars
Date	243
Location	Resaena, Mesopotamia (Ras al-Ayn, Syria)
Result	Roman victory
Belligerents
	Roman Empire
Commanders and leaders
	Shapur I

The Battle of Resaena or Resaina, near Ceylanpinar, Turkey, was fought in 243 between the forces of the Roman Empire, led by Praetorian Prefect Timesitheus, and a Sassanid Empire army, led by King Shapur I. The Romans were victorious.

The battle was fought during a campaign ordered by Emperor Gordian III to retake the Roman cities of Hatra, Nisibis and Carrhae. These territories, in fact, had been conquered by Shapur and, before him, by his father King Ardashir I, when the Roman Empire was plagued with the internal wars between pretenders to the throne.

Following this victory the Roman legions recovered Nsibis and Singara, and advanced by way of the Khabur to the Euphrates. Intending to take Ctesiphon, Gordian's army was halted at Misiche.

Notes

^ Hopkins, T. C. F., Empires, Wars, and Battles: The Middle East from Antiquity to the Rise of the new world, (Macmillan, 2007), 95.

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[1] Hopkins, T. C. F., Empires, Wars, and Battles: The Middle East from Antiquity to the Rise of the new world, (Macmillan, 2007), 95.

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