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Beate Dignas & Engelbert Winter - Kaveh Farrokh

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20 2 A chronological survey<br />

Map 2: Sasanian Iran<br />

When Ardaˇsīr I had taken over Parthian territories he had also made<br />

an unsuccessful attempt at capturing Hatra. Losing a fortress of immense<br />

strategic importance for securing middle Mesopotamia to Rome threatened<br />

the Persian Western frontier considerably. Only towards the end of Ardaˇsīr’s<br />

reign the Sasanians managed to capture Hatra after a two-year siege and<br />

probably by treason. 10 Scholars date the fall of Hatra to some time between<br />

10 Tabarī, tr. Nöldeke 33–40; Bosworth 31–7 (827–30).

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