Mundhir goes in the summer of 580…
581 CE
Mundhir goes in the summer of 580 or 581 to Circesium on the river Euphrates, where he joins the imperial forces under the new magister militum per Orientem, Maurice, for a campaign deep into Persian territory.
The combined force moves south along the river, accompanied by a fleet of ships.
The allied army storms the fortress of Anatha and moves on until it reaches the region of Beth Aramaye in central Mesopotamia, near the Persian capital of Ctesiphon, but there they find the bridge over the Euphrates destroyed by the Persians.
With any possibility of a march to Ctesiphon gone, they are forced to retreat, especially since at the same time …
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Arab people
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Persian people
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Babylonia, Classical
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Mesopotamia (Roman province)
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Persian Empire, Sassanid, or Sasanid
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Osroene (Roman province)
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Lakhmid kingdom of al-Hira
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East, Diocese of the
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East, or Oriens, Praetorian prefecture of
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Christians, Miaphysite (Oriental Orthodox)
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Christians, Monophysite
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Christianity, Chalcedonian
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Ghassan, Kingdom of
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Roman Empire, Eastern: Justinian dynasty
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Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
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