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Beate Dignas & Engelbert Winter - Kaveh Farrokh

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30 2 A chronological survey<br />

N<br />

0 200 km<br />

0<br />

Land over 1000 metres<br />

Mediterranean<br />

Sea<br />

CAPPADOCIA<br />

100 miles<br />

Taurus Mountains<br />

Antioch<br />

River Oronteas<br />

Apamea<br />

Damascus<br />

Beroea<br />

Zeugma<br />

Gabbulon<br />

SYRIA<br />

Strata Diocletiana<br />

Melitene<br />

Hierapolis<br />

EUPHRATESIA<br />

Palmyra<br />

River Euphrates<br />

Edessa<br />

Batnae<br />

Barbalissos<br />

Satala<br />

Constantia<br />

Resaina/Theodosiopolis<br />

Carrhae<br />

OSRHOENE<br />

Sura<br />

Sergiopolis<br />

Map 3: Northern Mesopotamia and adjacent regions<br />

SOPHANENE<br />

Syrian<br />

Desert<br />

Amida<br />

Callinicum<br />

Zenobia<br />

military campaigns that could put at risk what had been accomplished so<br />

far. In the end, Diocletian prevailed in the negotiations at Nisibis. A peace<br />

treaty was concluded and put an end to the last of the Roman–Sasanian<br />

Wars of the third century. Although the foedus of 298 put the Sasanians at<br />

a major disadvantage (17), Rome intended to respect the sovereignty of the<br />

defeated Sasanian ruler. 71<br />

71 Chrysos 1976: 11–17.

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