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The following is a list of wars fought between Greeks and Persians.
List
editGreek/Seleucid/Byzantine victory - 10
Iranian/Persian victory - 5
Inconclusive/Victory for either Pro or Anti-Greek forces - 4
Date | War | Belligerents | Belligerents | Result | Note |
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Ancient Greece (499–323 BC) | |||||
499-493 bc | Ionian Revolt | Greeks | Achaemenid empire | Persian Victory | Persia regains control of Cyprus and Greek cities in Asia Minor Beginning of the first Persian invasion of Greece |
492-490 bc | First Persian invasion of Greece | Greeks | Achaemenid empire | Inconclusive | Persians capture Thrace and part of Macedonia, but they fail to achieve their goals |
480-479 bc | Second Persian invasion of Greece | Greeks | Achaemenid empire | Greek victory | The Greeks expel Persia from Europe,Macedonia,Thrace,Ionia and Aegean Islands returned to the Greeks |
479-478 bc | Greek counterattack | Greeks | Achaemenid empire | Greek victory | Greeks captured Cyprus |
355-328 bc | Persian campaign of Alexander the Great | Macedonia (ancient kingdom) | Achaemenid empire | Greek victory | Macedonia(Greece) annexes Achaemenid empire
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Seleucid empire (312-129 BC) | |||||
280 bc | First Parni invasion of Margiana | Seleucid Empire | Parni | Seleucid Victory | The military capabilities of the Parni had been weakened as a result of the Seleucid retaliation and victory. |
248-246 bc | Second Parni invasion of Margiana | Seleucid empire | Parni | Seleucid victory | Despite the victory, the Seleucids once again failed to completely neutralize the Parni threat. |
236-235 bc | First Seleucid-Parthian war | Seleucid empire | Parthian empire | Parthian victory | that Seleucus was forced to acquiesce to Arsaces and leave Parthia to its devices |
210-208 bc | Second Seleucid-Parthian war | Seleucid empire | Parthian empire | Seleucid victory | Parthia becomes a vassal of the Seleucid Empire. The Seleucids annex all of Parthia south of the Kopetdag mountain range |
187-166 bc | Third Seleucid–Parthian War | Seleucid Empire | Parthian Empire | Parthian victory | Parthia gains independence from the Seleucids |
165-138 bc | Fourth Seleucid–Parthian War | Seleucid Empire | Parthian Empire | Parthian victory | Parthia captures a large territory in the east and captures the Seleucid Emperor |
148-129 bc | Five Seleucid–Parthian War | Seleucid Empire | Parthian Empire | Parthian victory | Decline of the Seleucids and end of Hellenistic rule in Iran |
Byzantine empire (440-628) | |||||
421-422 | Byzantine-Sasanian war of 421-422 | Byzantine empire | Sasanian empire | Byzantine victory[1][2] | Status quo ante bellum
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440 | Byzantine–Sasanian War of 440 | Byzantine empire | Sasanian empire | Inconclusive | Status quo ante bellum
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502-506 | Anastasian War | Byzantine empire | Sasanian empire | Byzantine victory | Status quo ante bellum
•Although Byzantium paid a very small amount of money, the Sassanians were forced to retreat without achieving the goals of the war,the tribute that the Persian king wanted to receive from the Romans was not paid [3] |
526-532 | Iberian War | Byzantine empire | Sasanian empire | Inconclusive | Sasanians retained Iberia,Byzantines retained Lazica |
541-562 | Lazic War | Byzantine empire | Sasanian empire | Inconclusive | Fifty-Year Peace Treaty |
572-591 | Byzantine–Sasanian War of 572–591 | Byzantine empire | Sasanian empire | Byzantine victory | Khosrow II is restored to the Sasanian throne,Byzantine empire get most of Persian Armenia and western half of Iberia |
602-628 | Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628 | Byzantine empire | Sasanian empire | Byzantine victory | Status quo ante bellum
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Notes
edit- ^ Greatrex 1991, p. 40-41.
- ^ Decker 2022, p. 234.
- ^ Greatrex 1991, p. 84.
Sources
edit- Greatrex, Geoffrey (1991). The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian wars.Part II.363-630AD. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-14687-9.
- Decker, Michael J. (2022). The Sasanian empire at War.Persia,Rome and the rise od Islam. Westholme Publishing,LLC. ISBN 978-1-59416-692-1.