The Battle of Naissus
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Topic: The Battle of Naissus
Posted By: Imperator Invictus
Subject: The Battle of Naissus
Date Posted: 20-Aug-2005 at 22:19
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Great battle summary! The crisis of the third century was surely one of the most exciting times of the empire. Here's a great map of the period, showing the battle locations of Naissus and others. http://www.utexas.edu/courses/romanciv/end%20and%20legacy/invasions.jpg - http://www.utexas.edu/courses/romanciv/end%20and%20legacy/in vasions.jpg |
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Posted By: Heraclius
Date Posted: 21-Aug-2005 at 08:28
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Thanks. Wow excellent map The crisis of the 3rd century is definately one of the most exciting periods of Roman history, its amazing it survived at all. Aurelian though was a special Emperor in only 5 years he achieved all of the things I listed which is remarkable, yet he's largely ignored or overlooked which is a shame. ------------- A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough. |
it really shows the extent of the mayhem the empire was in at this point.Posted By: Ahmed The Fighter
Date Posted: 27-Aug-2005 at 03:33
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Intrested battle,Hard victory is greater than easy victory. ------------- "May the eyes of cowards never sleep" Khalid Bin Walid 
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Posted By: Byzantine Emperor
Date Posted: 27-Aug-2005 at 12:55
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Nice expose there on the battle! I think Gallienus is too often ignored in many assessments of the barracks emperors. Granted the barracks period in general was very deleterious for the Empire, but Gallienus seemed like a man of action at a time when serious action was needed. He had to face all of those rebellions in Gaul--this was an unprecedented threat to the Roman imperial tradition. From some accounts, we understand that he was also an amateur poet of some repute. ------------- http://www.allempires.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=12713 - Late Byzantine Military http://www.allempires.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=17337 - Ottoman perceptions of the Americas |
Posted By: Heraclius
Date Posted: 29-Aug-2005 at 12:56
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Gallienus is abit overlooked to be honest, I suppose its because he was followed by some brilliant soldier Emperors like Claudius II Gothicus who infact smashed the Alemanni who may have numbered 100,000 men also at "the battle of lake Benacus" only a few months after Naissus and went a long way to bringing the Gallic empire back into the empire. Also then followed by the ever impressive Aurelian, who overshadowed them both. ------------- A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough. |
Posted By: opuslola
Date Posted: 07-Oct-2009 at 12:53
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According to the map provided by Imperator Invictus, one can see that a sea asault appears to have been successful by the Goths (Germans? or Vikings?) and the "Heruli!" (Herr-rulers? / lords?)
According to the map, it seems Athens itself was taken in 268 CE! Is this a fact? Isn't it strange that the Roman "Decius" seems to have lost "Dacia?" Or maybe it should have been "Decia?", or "Decius", "Dacius?" But, just how did the Goths and Heruli sail all the way to Athens to ultimately "sack it?" Were they just natural sailors? Note the above map also shows them sacking Trabzon! Wow, they were made for sea assaults, were they not? Oh! It seems that they also sacked Byzantium!" See; http://www.fact-archive.com/encyclopedia/Heruli Thus they seemed to be able to attack three of the greatest cities of the Greeks, via sea invasion, in a period of but a few years! Thus, they are amongst the most successful invaders in history! My opinion: mostly myth! Your thoughts? ------------- http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/history/ |
Posted By: p,c,ma
Date Posted: 27-Sep-2010 at 16:52
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Athens was left unprotected by the Romans (who at this point only cared for protecting themselves), and merely left Dacia after the emperor's death. ------------- |
Posted By: Hachimantaro
Date Posted: 17-Oct-2010 at 19:40
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Posted By: opuslola
Date Posted: 17-Oct-2010 at 21:13
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You notice that it seems we got into the above discussion somwhere in the middle of it!
Regardless, did either of you read about the battle? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Naissus Also blow up the map attached and look at the information provided, etc. The wiki site actually gives some good information! Please look up the information on the city also! Consider that the word "Na-issus" seems familar! I would suggest that "Issus" and variants of it, merely means "river" and is related to the word "issue", as in "issues forth", etc.! Note, I consider "-icus / acus", and "-issos" as another versions! There is even a similar river in Athens! http://www.bgs.gr/main.php?l1=74&l2=109 Perhaps you can find other name related places and rivers? You might well even consider this; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Issus Regards, ------------- http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/history/ |
Posted By: Hachimantaro
Date Posted: 17-Oct-2010 at 22:13
Well im already quite amiliar with the battle, as military history is a favourite of mine, but more importantly the Roman period.
Claudius II was an outstanding leader who crushed all goths in his path until dying of the plague, ut we can also say it was thanks to Gallienus for creating the cavalry unit from where he served.
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