Zabdas, the Glossary
Zabdas was a 3rd-century Syrian general who led the forces of Empress Zenobia of Palmyra during her rule as regent of her son Vaballathus and her subsequent rebellion against the Roman Emperor under the short-lived independent Palmyrene Empire.[1]
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37 relations: Alexandria, Anatolia, Ankara, Antioch, Asia (Roman province), Aurelian, Babylon Fortress, Battle of Emesa, Battle of Immae, Bithynia, Bosporus, Bosra, Cassius Longinus (philosopher), Chalcedon, Claudius Gothicus, Cyzicus, Galatia, Goths, Homs, Issus (Cilicia), Legio III Cyrenaica, List of Palmyrene monarchs, List of Roman emperors, Palmyra, Palmyrene Empire, Palmyrene invasion of Egypt, Roman Egypt, Roman emperor, Roman Syria, Sack of Bostra, Sasanian Empire, Septimius Zabbai, Tanukhids, Tenagino Probus, Thrace, Vaballathus, Zenobia.
- 273 deaths
- 3rd-century Asian people
- 3rd-century people
- Palmyrene Empire
- Septimii
Alexandria
Alexandria (الإسكندرية; Ἀλεξάνδρεια, Coptic: Ⲣⲁⲕⲟϯ - Rakoti or ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲓⲁ) is the second largest city in Egypt and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast.
Anatolia
Anatolia (Anadolu), also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula or a region in Turkey, constituting most of its contemporary territory.
Ankara
Ankara, historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and 5.8 million in Ankara Province, making it Turkey's second-largest city after Istanbul, but first by the urban area (4,130 km2).
Antioch
Antioch on the Orontes (Antiókheia hē epì Oróntou)Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου; or Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Δάφνῃ "Antioch on Daphne"; or Ἀντιόχεια ἡ Μεγάλη "Antioch the Great"; Antiochia ad Orontem; Անտիոք Antiokʽ; ܐܢܛܝܘܟܝܐ Anṭiokya; אנטיוכיה, Anṭiyokhya; أنطاكية, Anṭākiya; انطاکیه; Antakya.
Asia (Roman province)
Asia (Ἀσία) was a Roman province covering most of western Anatolia, which was created following the Roman Republic's annexation of the Attalid Kingdom in 133 BC.
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Aurelian
Aurelian (Lucius Domitius Aurelianus; 9 September 214 – November 275) was a Roman emperor who reigned from 270 to 275 during the Crisis of the Third Century.
Babylon Fortress
Babylon Fortress is an Ancient Roman fortress on the eastern bank of the Nile Delta, located in the area known today as Old Cairo or Coptic Cairo.
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Battle of Emesa
The Battle of Emesa was fought in 272 between the Roman armies led by their emperor Aurelian and the Palmyrene forces led by their empress, Zenobia and general Zabdas.
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Battle of Immae
The Battle of Immae was fought in 272 between the Roman army of Emperor Aurelian, and the armies of the Palmyrene Empire, whose leader, Empress Zenobia, had usurped Roman control over the eastern provinces.
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Bithynia
Bithynia (Bithynía) was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor (present-day Turkey), adjoining the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, and the Black Sea.
Bosporus
The Bosporus or Bosphorus Strait (Istanbul strait, colloquially Boğaz) is a natural strait and an internationally significant waterway located in Istanbul, Turkey.
Bosra
Bosra (Buṣrā), formerly Bostra (Βόστρα) and officially called Busra al-Sham (Buṣrā al-Shām), is a town in southern Syria, administratively belonging to the Daraa District of the Daraa Governorate and geographically part of the Hauran region.
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Cassius Longinus (philosopher)
Cassius Longinus (Κάσσιος Λογγῖνος; c. 213 – 273 AD) was a Greek rhetorician and philosophical critic. Zabdas and Cassius Longinus (philosopher) are 273 deaths and 3rd-century Romans.
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Chalcedon
Chalcedon (Χαλκηδών||; sometimes transliterated as Khalqedon) was an ancient maritime town of Bithynia, in Asia Minor.
Claudius Gothicus
Marcus Aurelius Claudius "Gothicus" (10 May 214 – August/September 270), also known as Claudius II, was Roman emperor from 268 to 270.
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Cyzicus
Cyzicus (Κύζικος Kúzikos; آیدینجق, Aydıncıḳ) was an ancient Greek town in Mysia in Anatolia in the current Balıkesir Province of Turkey.
Galatia
Galatia (Γαλατία, Galatía, "Gaul") was an ancient area in the highlands of central Anatolia, roughly corresponding to the provinces of Ankara and Eskişehir, in modern Turkey.
Goths
The Goths (translit; Gothi, Gótthoi) were Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe.
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Homs
Homs (حِمْص / ALA-LC:; Levantine Arabic: حُمْص / Ḥomṣ), known in pre-Islamic Syria as Emesa (Émesa), is a city in western Syria and the capital of the Homs Governorate.
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Issus (Cilicia)
Issus (Latin; Phoenician: Sissu) or Issos (Ἰσσός, Issós, or Ἰσσοί, Issoí) was an ancient settlement on the strategic coastal plain straddling the small Pinarus river (a fast melt-water stream several metres wide) below the navigationally difficult inland mountains towering above to the east in the Turkish Province of Hatay, near the border with Syria.
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Legio III Cyrenaica
Legio III Cyrenaica, (Third Legion "Cyrenean") was a legion of the Imperial Roman army.
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List of Palmyrene monarchs
Below is a list of Palmyrene monarchs, the monarchs that ruled and presided over the city of Palmyra and the subsequent Palmyrene Empire in the 3rd century AD, and the later vassal princes of the Al Fadl dynasty which ruled over the city in the 14th century.
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List of Roman emperors
The Roman emperors were the rulers of the Roman Empire from the granting of the name and title Augustus to Octavian by the Roman Senate in 27 BC onward.
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Palmyra
Palmyra (Palmyrene:, romanized: Tadmor; Tadmur) is an ancient city in the eastern part of the Levant, now in the center of modern Syria. Zabdas and Palmyra are Palmyrene Empire.
Palmyrene Empire
The Palmyrene Empire was a short-lived breakaway state from the Roman Empire resulting from the Crisis of the Third Century.
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Palmyrene invasion of Egypt
The Palmyrene invasion of Egypt occurred in the summer, or possibly in October, of 270 AD when the forces of Queen Zenobia of Palmyra, led by her general Zabdas and aided by an Egyptian general named Timagenes, invaded and subsequently annexed Egypt, which was under control of the Roman Empire at the time.
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Roman Egypt
Roman Egypt; was an imperial province of the Roman Empire from 30 BC to AD 641.
Roman emperor
The Roman emperor was the ruler and monarchical head of state of the Roman Empire, starting with the granting of the title augustus to Octavian in 27 BC.
Roman Syria
Roman Syria was an early Roman province annexed to the Roman Republic in 64 BC by Pompey in the Third Mithridatic War following the defeat of King of Armenia Tigranes the Great, who had become the protector of the Hellenistic kingdom of Syria.
Sack of Bostra
The sack of Bostra occurred around the spring of 270 AD when Queen Zenobia of Palmyra sent her general, Zabdas, to Bostra, the capital of Arabia Petraea, to subjugate the Tanukhids who were challenging Palmyrene authority.
Sasanian Empire
The Sasanian Empire or Sassanid Empire, and officially known as Eranshahr ("Land/Empire of the Iranians"), was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th to 8th centuries.
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Septimius Zabbai
Zabbai was a Palmyrene man who lived in the third century, and likely was a member of the Palmyrene nobility. Zabdas and Septimius Zabbai are 3rd-century Romans, 3rd-century people and Septimii.
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Tanukhids
The Tanûkhids (transl), Tanukh (translit), or Banū Tanūkh (بنو تنوخ, romanized as) were a confederation of Arab tribes, sometimes characterized as Saracens.
Tenagino Probus
Tenagino Probus was a Roman soldier and procuratorial official whose career reached its peak at the end of the sixth decade of the third century AD (c. 255–260). Zabdas and Tenagino Probus are 3rd-century Romans.
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Thrace
Thrace (Trakiya; Thráki; Trakya) is a geographical and historical region in Southeast Europe.
Vaballathus
Septimius Vaballathus (Palmyrene Aramaic:,; translit; 259 – c. 274 AD) was emperor of the Palmyrene Empire centred at Palmyra in the region of Syria. Zabdas and Vaballathus are 3rd-century Romans, Palmyrene Empire and Septimii.
Zenobia
Septimia Zenobia (Palmyrene Aramaic:,; 240 – c. 274) was a third-century queen of the Palmyrene Empire in Syria. Zabdas and Zenobia are 3rd-century people, Palmyrene Empire and Septimii.
See also
273 deaths
- Callinicus (sophist)
- Cassius Longinus (philosopher)
- Columba of Sens
- Dexippus
- Firmus
- Reverianus
- Wei Zhao (Eastern Wu)
- Zabdas
3rd-century Asian people
- Julius Marinus
- Septimius Worod
- Shanyue
- Zabdas
3rd-century people
- Abba Kohen Bardela
- Akouas
- Bardaisan
- Beryllus of Bostra
- Hanan bar Rava
- Heliodorus of Emesa
- Lucius Septimius Flavianus Flavillianus
- Mar Ammo
- Marcus Julius Gessius Bassianus
- Marcus Julius Gessius Marcianus
- Septimius Antiochus
- Septimius Haddudan
- Septimius Worod
- Septimius Zabbai
- Severus Alexander
- Ulpius Marcellus (son)
- Velenus
- Zabdas
- Zenobia
Palmyrene Empire
- Abgal (god)
- Bene Komare
- Bene Ma'zin
- Hairan I
- Hairan II
- Maeonius
- Odaenathus
- Palmyra
- Palmyrene Empire
- Portraits of Odaenathus
- Septimius Antiochus
- Septimius Haddudan
- Septimius Worod
- Timolaus of Palmyra
- Vaballathus
- Zabdas
- Zenobia
Septimii
- Caracalla
- Clodius Albinus
- Gaius Septimius Severus Aper
- Geta (emperor)
- Hairan I
- Hairan II
- Lucius Septimius
- Lucius Septimius (Roman governor)
- Lucius Valerius Septimius Bassus
- Odaenathus
- Publius Septimius Geta (brother of Septimius Severus)
- Publius Septimius Geta (father of Septimius Severus)
- Septimia gens
- Septimius Acindynus
- Septimius Antiochus
- Septimius Bassus
- Septimius Haddudan
- Septimius Severus
- Septimius Zabbai
- Septimius of Iesi
- Tertullian
- Vaballathus
- Zabdas
- Zenobia
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabdas
Also known as Septimius Zabdas.