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- ↑ A Journey to Palmyra: Collected Essays to Remember Delbert R. Hillers "Sometime in the middle of the century, Shapur took possession of Armenia and invaded Roman Mesopotamia. Nisibis and Charrae fell into his hands"
- ↑ Empress Zenobia: Palmyra's Rebel Queen "Shapur also claimed that he had devastated Syria and captured thirty-seven cities with their surrounding territories. He may have captured Nisibis, and destroyed Antioch."
- ↑ Edwell 2007, p. 185.
- ↑ Dodgeon & Lieu 2002, p. 306.
Sources
- Edwell, Peter (2007). Between Rome and Persia: The Middle Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Palmyra Under Roman Control. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-09573-5.
- Dodgeon, Michael H; Lieu, Samuel N. C (2002). The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars AD 226-363: A Documentary History. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-96113-9.
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