Odaenathus has driven the Persians from the…

267 CE

Odaenathus has driven the Persians from the Roman provinces of Mesopotamia and Osroëne by 267, and he probably also has brought Armenia back into the empire.

Although he has failed to seize the Sassanian capital of Ctesiphon, he has managed to restore Roman rule in the East, and assembled a small client empire stretching from southern Anatolia to the Red Sea.

He is preparing to drive Gothic invaders from the Roman province of Cappadocia in eastern Asia Minor when he and his eldest son (by his former wife), Herodes (or Herodianus), are assassinated in 267 (or 268).

His queen, Zenobia (in full Septimia Zenobia; Aramaic Znwbya Bat Zabbai) becomes regent for her own young son Wahballat (called Vaballathus in Latin, Athenodorus in Greek).

Zenobia maintains an alliance with the Romans to offset the threat to her kingdom from Persia.

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Palmyra > Tudmur Hims Syria View →

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Odaenathus View → Vabalathus View → Zenobia View →

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Goths (East Germanic tribe) View → Cappadocia (Roman province) View → Syria Palæstina, Roman province of (Judea, Samaria, and Idumea) View → Mesopotamia (Roman province) View → Armenia, Kingdom of View → Persian Empire, Sassanid, or Sasanid View → Roman Empire (Rome): Non-dynastic View → Thervingi (East Germanic tribe) View → Palmyrene Empire View →

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Classical antiquity View → Crisis of the Third Century (Roman Civil “War” of 235-84) View → Roman Gothic War, Second View →

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