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The Siege of Amida took place when the Sassanids (Persian: ساساني‎‎), under Shah Shapur II (Persian: شاپور دوم‎‎) besieged the Roman city of Amida in 359.In this battle Ammianus Marcellinus, a historian of Greek origin from Antioch, was a Roman army officer; he described the siege in his work (Res Gestae).

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  • The Siege of Amida took place when the Sassanids (Persian: ساساني‎‎), under Shah Shapur II (Persian: شاپور دوم‎‎) besieged the Roman city of Amida in 359.In this battle Ammianus Marcellinus, a historian of Greek origin from Antioch, was a Roman army officer; he described the siege in his work (Res Gestae).
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  • Siege of Amida
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  • Most defenders, some citizens, some refugees from countryside
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  • Roman Empire
  • Sassanid Empire
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  • DecisiveSassanidvictory
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  • Legio X Fretensis
  • Albani
  • Comites Sagittarii (Household mounted archers)
  • Gelani
  • Legio V Parthica (garrison force)
  • Legio XXX Ulpia
  • Legions fromGaulloyal toMagnentius
  • Praeventores
  • Sassanid army
  • Segestani
  • Superventores,
  • Xionites
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