Heraclius' Anatolian campaign

When

622

Kind

Event

Coordinates

36.84° N, 36.16° E

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Heraclius' Anatolian campaign.

Battle of Issus: Heraclius defeats the Persian forces under Shahrbaraz in Cappadocia. He recaptures Anatolia, but returns to Constantinople to deal with the threat posed to his Balkan domains by the Avars, and puts the Byzantine army into winter quarters in Pontus.

Byzantine military campaign

Heraclius' campaign of 622, erroneously also known as the Battle of Issus, was a major campaign in the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628 by emperor Heraclius that culminated in a crushing Byzantine victory in Anatolia.

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