Siege of Petra (550–551)
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Siege of Petra (550–551)
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The siege of Petra was fought in 550 AD, between the Byzantines under general Bessas, and the Sasanian Persian garrison of Petra in the buffer state of Lazica. The strategic fortress had previously been held by the Byzantines before it was seized in 541 by the Sasanian king Khosrow I, and his Lazi allies. This conquest gave the Sassanian Empire access to the Black Sea and marked the beginning of the Lazic War. After a failed attempt to recapture Petra in 549, the Byzantine emperor Justinian I se
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Battle during the Roman–Persian Wars
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Petra_(550%E2%80%93551)
date created:
2019-02-26T17:25:14Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T05:16:19Z
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