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NEW MAP: Europe 224: Battle of Hormozdgan (28 April 224) https://buff.ly/30GqcoS Elagabalus reigned for just under 4 years, until 222, when the Praetorian Guard deposed him in favor of his 14-year-old cousin Severus Alexander. The accession of Alexander, with his mother Julia Mamaea as regent, ushered in a period of peace in the Roman Empire, but in neighboring Parthia trouble was brewing, as Ardashir I and his rebel Sasanians exploited the civil war between Artabanus IV and Vologases VI to annex Elymais and Characene. Determined to crush Ardashir, Artabanus marched south in 224, only to be defeated and killed at the Battle of Hormozdgan. #3rdcentury #ancient #ancientpersia #ancientrome #carta #characene #europe #europeanhistory #historian #historical #historicalplace #historybuff #historyclass #historyfacts #historylover #historylovers #instahistory #persia #sasanian #maps #parthia #phoenicia #roman #romanempire #romanhistory #romans #sasanid #worldatlas #worldhistory #newmap (at Ramhormoz) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDBKNUDgEFU/?igshid=sdhuxbflvtii

NEW MAP: Europe 161: Vologases IV’s Conquest of Armenia (31 Oct 161) https://buff.ly/2wqo5dw Antoninus Pius died in March 161 and was succeeded by the co-emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, neither of who had any military experience. Seizing advantage of the situation, Vologases IV, shah of a resurgent Parthia, invaded and occupied Armenia, defeating Roman legions sent from Cappadocia and Syria. #ancienthistory #2ndcentury #ancientrome #armenia #carta #cartographic #characene #europe #europeanhistory #historisch #historygeek #historylover #historymaker #mesopotamia #marcusaurelius #map #mapa #maps #spqr #antonine #parthia #riskgame #roman #romanempire #romanhistory #romans #caesar #parthianempire #worldhistory #newmap (at Artashat, Armenia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-y6r_lAMEl/?igshid=2039stfy5bw8

The Kingdom of Characene was centered in present-day Kuwait, and was initially a satrapy of the Seleucid Kingdom. Antiochus IV Ephiphanes appointed a certain Hyspaosines as Satrap late his reign; he evidently served in this capacity for several decades and, in 127 BC, he declared the region’s independence and named himself as king. At this point the Parthians were gobbling up huge chunks of the Seleucid realm, but they were apparently content to let Characene exist as a semi-autonomous region. Hyspaosines is named on a Babylonian tablet naming him as king in the capital city of Charax-Spasinu, a well-fortified port on the Persian gulf; the inscription also hames his wife as Thalassia.  Hyspaosines struck the first coins of Characene, with a diademed portrait of himself on the obverse, very much in the tradition of excellent Hellenistic portraiture. The portraits of later kings were more stylized and closer to the Parthian style. Characene retained its semi-independent state until it fell to the new Sassanid Persian dynasty in the third century AD.