Diodore of Tarsus (?- 390 AD ), Cosmas Indicopleustes ( 6th century ), and Chrysostom ( 347 – 407 AD ) belonged to this flat Earth tradition.

During the autumn of 169 AD when Roman troops were returning to Aquileia, the great plague broke out and the emperor summoned Galen back to Rome.

He was in Rome when it struck in 166 AD, and was also present in the winter of 168 – 69 during an outbreak among troops stationed at Aquileia.

or much earlier, to the 1st century AD and originated there, polo was at first a training game for cavalry units, usually the king's guard or other elite troops.

Breaking free from the Huns after the Battle of Nedao in 454, they established their own kingdom and joined Odoacer, the commander of the Imperial foederati troops who deposed the last Western Roman Emperor Romulus Augustus in 476 AD.

The Heruli later joined Odoacer, the commander of the Imperial foederati troops who deposed the last Western Roman Emperor Romulus Augustus in 476 AD.

According to Tacitus ( Annals 14. 35 ), Boudica, queen of the Iceni and a number of other tribes in a formidable uprising against the occupying Roman forces, addressed her troops from a chariot in AD 61:

In AD 215 Caracalla savagely responded to this insult by slaughtering the deputation of leading citizens who had unsuspectingly assembled before the city to greet his arrival, and then unleashed his troops for several days of looting and plunder in Alexandria.

* Antonine Plague, an ancient pandemic in 165 – 189 AD brought to the Roman Empire by troops returning from campaigns in the Near East

In 86 AD the Dacian king Duras ordered his troops to attack Roman Moesia.

Champa was made into a tributary state of Vietnam in 1312, but ten years later regained independence and Champa troops led by king Chế Bồng Nga ( Cham: Po Binasuor or Che Bonguar ) killed king Trần Duệ Tông in battle and even laid siege to Đại Việt's capital Thăng Long in 1377 AD and again in 1383 AD.

In 69 AD it became the scene of violent conflict between the troops of Othos and Vitellius.

It was the Second Cohort of Lingones troops stationed here during the second century AD who inscribed the above mentioned altar-stone.

Roman troops, mainly from nearby Germanic provinces, under Emperor Claudius invaded what is now England in AD 43.

The whole province ( including Vindelicia ) was at first under a military prefect, then under a procurator ; it had no standing army quartered in it but relied on its own native troops and militia for protection until the 2nd century AD.

Some historians argue that the actual settlement of Ramana near Baku was possibly founded by the Roman troops of Lucius Julius Maximus from Legio XII Fulminata in circa 84-96 AD and derives its name from the Latin Romana .< ref >

At the beginning of the 5th Century AD, Rome withdrew its troops from the Rhine garrisons, but allowed the Burgundians to settle on Helvetii lands in 443 AD.

One possible origin is that they are descendants of Mongolian troops posted in the Hezhou area by Genghis Khan ( 1162-1227 AD ) during his journey westward, while another possibility is that they could be a mixture of many peoples including Mongolian, Han, and Tibetan groups.

Forced to deal with the rebel Thomas the Slav, Michael had few troops to spare against a small Andalusian invasion of 40 ships and 10, 000 men against Crete, which fell in 824 AD.

Alexander so alienated the Rhine legions by his lack of military prowess and his inflexibility towards pay that the troops proclaimed the giant Maximinus Thrax as emperor in AD 235.

For a brief time, war elephants played a vital role in Southern Han victories such as the invasion of Chu in 948 AD, but the Southern Han elephant corps were ultimately soundly defeated at Shao in 971 AD, decimated by crossbow fire from troops of the Song Dynasty.

There was also the rebellion of Gongsun Shu in 33 AD, where a large pontoon bridge with fortified posts was constructed across the Yangtze River, eventually broken through with ramming ships by official Han troops under Commander Cen Peng.

The town of Petrelë lies in this area and has a rich history, containing a tower which was built in the 5th century AD and which was used mostly to watch for Ottoman troops marching towards inner Albania.

Romans and Parthians fought over Assyria and the rest of Mesopotamia until 226 AD, when it was taken over by the Sassanid ( Persian ) Empire.

The city is mentioned again in the Battle of Nineveh in 627 AD, which was fought between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Sassanian Empire of Persia near the ancient city.

Around 900 AD, major wars were fought between Chiang Saen and Hariphunchai.

The first ancient writer to do so is Strabo, some time after 16 AD, who includes the Chatti in a listing of " poorer Germanic tribes " that had previously fought the Romans.

In 840 AD, he fought at Carhampton against 35 ship companies of Danes, whose raids had increased considerably.

The Battle of Lake Benacus was fought along the banks of Lake Garda in northern Italy, which was known to the Romans as Benacus, in early 269 AD, between the army under the command of the Roman Emperor Claudius II and the Germanic tribes of the Alamanni and Juthungi.

A prominent example of these were the Flemings that fought during the English civil wars, known as the Anarchy or the Nineteen-Year Winter ( AD 1135 to 1154 ), under the command of William of Ypres, who was King Stephen's chief lieutenant from 1139 to 1154 and who was made Earl of Kent by Stephen.

A further Marcomannic confederation that included the Quadi fought the future emperor Tiberius in 6 AD.

In the later 2nd century AD, Marcus Aurelius fought them in the Marcomannic Wars, for which our source is an abridgement of lost books of Dio Cassius ' history.

The first related to those lords who had fought against Tokugawa forces at Sekigahara ( in 1600 AD ) and had from that point on been exiled permanently from all powerful positions within the shogunate.

Its later name, originally Constantia, comes either from the Roman emperor Constantius Chlorus, who fought the Alemanni in the region and built a strong fortress around 300 AD, or from his grandson Constantius II, who visited the region in 354.

During the 4th to the 6th century AD, this crucial border region between northern and southern states was much fought over ; its name and administrative status were consequently often changed.

In 3rd century AD, the famous Three Kingdoms battle, Battle of Xiaoyao Ford, was fought at what is currently Xiaoyao Ford ( 逍遥津 ) in Hefei.

; sometimes when a man from one nation was hostage in another nation, his position as hostage was more or less voluntary: for example the position of Æscferð son of Ecglāf, who was a Northumbrian hostage in Wessex ; he fought under Byrhtnōð against Vikings in the Battle of Maldon on 10 August 991 AD ( ref.

In the 12th century AD, the Cham fought a series of wars with the Angkorian Khmer to the west.

Its subjugation may have occurred around AD 500, from the opposition of the British leader known as Arthur, the second, third and fourth of whose twelve battles were fought in ' Linnuis ' and whose twelfth victory held back Anglo-Saxon expansion for fifty years.

The Battle of Xiaoting, also known as the Battle of Yiling and the Battle of Yiling and Xiaoting, was fought between the states of Eastern Wu and Shu Han in 222 AD during the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history.

According to Pausanias ( c. 2nd century AD ), the Battle of Leuctra was the most decisive battle ever fought by Greeks against Greeks.

* Julius Briganticus, a nephew of Civilis, who fought under Cerealis in Germania, and fell in battle in AD 71.

The next serious Roman civil war would not be fought until after Nero's suicide in 68 AD, the year before the year of the four emperors.

* Year of the Five Emperors ( 193 AD ) where after the first emperor was assassinated and the second executed, the last three, Pescennius Niger, Clodius Albinus, and Septimius Severus fought for the throne.

It was one of the most important strongholds of the Byzantine Empire from the 5th century AD onwards, and was fought over by Byzantines and Bulgarians, being captured and incorporated in the lands of the First Bulgarian Empire in 812 by Khan Krum after a two week siege only to be ceded back to Byzantium by Knyaz Boris I in 864 and reconquered by his son Tsar Simeon the Great.

The Battle of Badr (), fought Saturday, 13 March 624 AD ( 17 Ramadan, 2 AH in the Islamic calendar ) in the Hejaz region of western Arabia ( present-day Saudi Arabia ), was a key battle in the early days of Islam and a turning point in Muhammad's struggle with his opponents among the Quraish in Mecca.

Occupation of the area continued into the early Middle Ages ( AD 410-1066 ) when two battles are understood to have taken place in the area: Breahburh ( AD 567 ), thought to have been fought by Ceawlin of Wessex on the slopes of Barbury Hill, and Ellandun ( AD 825 ) at Elcombe Hall by Egbert of Wessex.