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Narseh retreated to Armenia to fight Galerius ' force, to Narseh's disadvantage ; the rugged Armenian terrain was favorable to Roman infantry, but unfavorable to Sassanid cavalry.
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Narseh and Armenia
Narseh did not advance from Armenia and Mesopotamia, leaving Galerius to lead the offensive in 298 with an attack on northern Mesopotamia via Armenia.
Following his father's loss of Armenia, Bahram III was considered too weak to rule the kingdom by much of the nobility and many nobles challenged his succession, instead pledging allegiance too his grand-uncle Narseh of Persia.
Narseh and Galerius
Narseh moved south into Roman Mesopotamia in 297, where he inflicted a severe defeat on Galerius in the region between Carrhae ( Harran, Turkey ) and Callinicum ( Ar-Raqqah, Syria ) ( and thus, the historian Fergus Millar notes, probably somewhere on the Balikh River ).
Detail of Galerius attacking Narseh on the Arch and Tomb of Galerius # Arch of Galerius | Arch of Galerius at Thessaloniki, Greece, the city where Galerius carried out most of his administrative actions
Narseh sent an ambassador to Galerius to plead for the return of his wives and children in the course of the war, but Galerius had dismissed him.
Diocletian and Galerius ' magister memoriae ( secretary ) Sicorius Probus were sent to Narseh to present terms.
After suffering a defeat by the Persians in 296, Galerius crushed Narseh in 298 — reversing a series of Roman defeats throughout the century — capturing members of the imperial household and a substantial amount of booty and gaining a highly favourable peace treaty, which secured peace between the two powers for a generation.
* Peace of Nisibis: Galerius signs a treaty with the Persian king Narseh that will last for 40 years.
Narseh then moved south into Roman Mesopotamia, where he inflicted a severe defeat on Galerius, then commander of the Eastern forces, in the region between Carrhae ( Harran, Turkey ) and Callinicum ( Ar-Raqqah, Syria ).
Narseh and Narseh's
Southern ( 1999, 149 ) dates the invasion to 295 ; Barnes ( 1982, 17, 293 ) mentions an earlier, unsuccessful invasion by Narseh based on the fact that the title Persici Maximi was given to all four emperors ; Odahl ( 2004, 59 ) concurs with Barnes and suggests that Saracen princes in the Syrian desert collaborated with Narseh's invasion.
Narseh and was
Within Persia, however, Narseh was destroying every trace of his immediate predecessors from public monuments.
In early 294, Narseh sent Diocletian the customary package of gifts, but within Persia he was destroying every trace of his immediate predecessors, erasing their names from public monuments.
After reigning for a period of only four months, Bahram III was either captured or more likely killed during a campaign by Narseh who then ascended to the throne in Bahram's place.
Many of the nobility decided to instead challenge his succession to the throne and instead pledged allegiance to Narseh, the last remaining son of Shapur I, and someone who was perceived as being a stronger leader and one who would be able to bring glory to Persia.
Four months into Bahram III's reign, his grand-uncle Narseh was summoned to Ctesiphon by the request of many members of the Persian nobility.
Narseh (), ( whose name is also sometimes written as Narses or Narseus ) was the seventh Sassanid King of Persia ( 293 – 302 ), and son of Shapur I ( 241 – 272 ).
A Kurd named Nasr or Narseh converted to Christianity, and changed his name to Theophobos during the reign of Emperor Theophilus and was the emperor's intimate friend and commander for many years.
Narseh and Sassanid
In 294, Narseh, a son of Shapur who had been passed over for the Sassanid succession, came to power in Persia.
In 294, Narseh, a son of Shapur I who had been passed over for the Sassanid succession, came into power in Persia.
Amru, possibly a descendant of Abgar, is mentioned as king in the Paikuli inscription, recording the victory of Narseh in the Sassanid civil war of 293.
Narseh and .
In the winter of 357 – 8, Constantius received ambassadors from Shapur II who demanded that Rome restore the lands surrendered by Narseh.
In early 294, Narseh sent Diocletian the customary package of gifts between the empires, and Diocletian responded with an exchange of ambassadors.
he invades Mesopotamia, but suffers a complete defeat outside Ctesiphon against the Persian king Narseh, and is forced to retreat.
Narseh probably moved to eliminate Bahram III, a young man installed by a noble named Vahunam in the wake of Bahram II's death in 293.
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