Siege of Nisibis (252)
| Siege of Nisibis | |||||||||
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| Part of the Roman–Persian wars | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Roman Empire | Sasanian Empire | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
| Unknown | Shapur I | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 2,000–5,000 Legionaries | Unknown | ||||||||
The siege of Nisibis took place when the Sasanians under Shah Shapur I besieged the Roman city of Nisibis in 252. This marks the beginning of Shapur's I second invasion of the Roman empire which saw the first Sassanid invasion of Syria; the year of the invasion is debated as Shapur's inscription from Naqsh-e Rustam regarding his second campaign against Rome do not mention the city of Nisibis. But Syriac and Arabic sources, mainly the Chronicle of Seert and Al-Tabari, mention that Shapur took Nisibis in his eleventh regnal year; according to the historian David Stone Potter, this regnal year is 252. Another Syriac account, the Liber Caliphorum, from the eighth century, mentions the invasion of the city in 252.