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426: 36: 374: 451: 446: 204:. It remained one of the easternmost outposts of the Roman Empire throughout the 3rd century. It was the scene of a celebrated nocturnal conflict during a 224:, and at length was carried by the Persians by storm, though gallantly defended by the townspeople and two legions. The country around it is stated by 476: 466: 388: 216:, the result of which was so unsatisfactory that both sides claimed the victory. Still later, in 359/360, during the reign of 481: 461: 174:
captured the city without a fight in the winter of 114. Although it was abandoned following the Roman withdrawal from
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to have been extremely arid, which rendered it equally difficult to take or to relieve from a distance.
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in 117, the city became once again part of the Roman Empire with the
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in 197. The city was raised by Severus to the status of a
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Index

Sinjar
Singara (moth)
Samosa
Zingara

Peutinger's map
Roman
Greek
Syriac
Mesopotamia
Romans
Persians
legio I Parthica
Sinjar
Nisibis
Stephanus of Byzantium
Arabia
Edessa
Ptolemy
Tigris
Sinjar
Mount Sinjar
Iraq
Nineveh Plains
Trajan
Lusius Quietus
Mesopotamia
Parthian
Septimius Severus
Roman colony

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