The truce in Mesopotamia had come to…
580 CE
The truce in Mesopotamia had come to an end in 578 and the main focus of the war shifted to this front.
After Persian raids in Mesopotamia, the new magister militum of the East, Maurice, who had first entered the imperial government as a notary, leads an effective campaign against Persia on the eastern frontier.
Mounting raids on both sides of the Tigris, captures the fortress of Aphumon and sacks Singara.
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Arab people
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Persian people
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Armenian people
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Babylonia, Classical
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Iberia, Caucasian (Kartli, Kingdom of)
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Mesopotamia (Roman province)
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Persian Empire, Sassanid, or Sasanid
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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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Ghassan, Kingdom of
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Roman Empire, Eastern: Justinian dynasty
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Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
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Armenia, (Roman vassal) Principality of
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