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Siege of Edessa may refer to: * Siege of Edessa (163), Roman–Parthian Wars * Siege of Edessa (165), Roman–Parthian Wars * Siege of Edessa (503), Roman–Persian Wars *
Siege of Edessa (544) The siege of Edessa (then known as Justinopolis) occurred in 544 AD during an invasion of the Byzantine Empire ruled by Justinian I by the Sasanian Empire under Khosrow I in the midst of the ongoing Lazic War in the north. The city withstood the ...
, Roman–Persian Wars * Siege Of Edessa (606) , Roman_Persian Wars *
Siege of Edessa (1144) The siege of Edessa (Arabic, ''fatḥ al-Ruhāʾ'', ) took place from November 28 to December 24, 1144, resulting in the fall of the capital of the crusader County of Edessa to Zengi, the atabeg of Mosul and Aleppo. This event was the cata ...
, Crusades *
Siege of Edessa (1146) The siege of Edessa in October–November 1146 marked the permanent end of the rule of the Frankish Counts of Edessa in the city on the eve of the Second Crusade. It was the second siege the city had suffered in as many years, the first siege of ...
, Crusades


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Battle of Edessa The Battle of Edessa took place between the armies of the Roman Empire under the command of Emperor Valerian and Sasanian forces under Shahanshah (King of the Kings) Shapur I in 260. The Roman army was defeated and captured in its entirety ...
, between the Roman and Sassanid Empires, 260 {{disambig