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Battle of Magnesia

190 BCE · 38.62° N, 27.43° E

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190 BCE
Kind
Battle
Coordinates
38.62° N, 27.43° E
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Battle of Magnesia

190/89 BCE battle in which Rome and Pergamon defeated the Seleucids

The Battle of Magnesia took place in either December 190 or January 189 BC. It was fought as part of the Roman–Seleucid War, pitting forces of the Roman Republic led by the consul Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus and the allied Kingdom of Pergamon under Eumenes II against a Seleucid army of Antiochus III the Great.

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