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Trajan commands the eastern campaign against the Parthian Empire in 115.

The invasion has been prompted by the imposition of a pro-Parthian king on the throne of Armenia after a Parthian invasion of that land, over which the two empires had shared hegemony since the time of Nero some fifty years earlier.

Trajan's army advances victoriously through Mesopotamia, while Jewish rebels in its rear begin attacking the small garrisons left behind.

A revolt in far-off Cyrenaica soon spreads to Egypt and then Cyprus, inciting revolt in Judaea.

A widespread uprising centered at Lydda threatens grain supplies from Egypt to the front.

The Jewish insurrection swiftly spreads to the recently conquered provinces.

Cities with substantial Jewish populations—Nisibis, Edessa, Seleucia, Arbela—join the rebellion and slaughter their small Roman garrisons.

The situation in Judea remains tense for the Romans, who under Hadrian are obliged to permanently move the Legio VI Ferrata into Caesarea Maritima in Judaea.

Lukuas flees from Alexandria to Judea.

Marcius Turbo, the Praetorian prefect, pursues him and sentences to death the brothers Julian and Pappus, who had been key leaders in the rebellion in Judaea.

Lusius Quietus, who in early 116 had been in charge of the Roman division who had recovered Nisibis and Edessa from the rebels, is now in command of the Roman army in Judaea, and lays siege to Lydda, where the rebel Jews have gathered under the leadership of Julian and Pappus.

The distress becomes so great that the patriarch Rabban Gamaliel II, who is shut up here and dies soon afterwards, permits fasting even on Ḥanukkah.

Other rabbis condemn this measure.

Lydda is next taken and many of the Jews are executed; the "slain of Lydda" are often mentioned in words of reverential praise in the Talmud.

Pappus and Julian were among those executed by the Romans in the same year.

…Palestine, with its capital at Lydda, covers the region south of the Plain of Esdraelon.

Lydda has been an important city since the Arab conquest of Palestine in the seventh century.

Because it is the traditional site of the martyrdom of St. George, patron saint of England, the Crusaders rename the city St. Jorge de Lidde.

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The Israeli 89th Commando Battalion, led by Moshe Dayan, attacks and captures the city of Lod, occupied by the invading Arab Legion, Transjordan's regular army, on July 11, 1948; ...