What the records say
- When
- 550 – 551
- Kind
- Siege
- Coordinates
- 41.77° N, 41.75° E
- Description
- 550-551 siege during the Lazic War
Siege of Petra (550–551)
Battle during the Roman–Persian Wars
The siege of Petra was fought in 550 AD, between the Byzantines under general Bessas, and the Sasanian Persian garrison of Petra in the buffer state of Lazica. The strategic fortress had previously been held by the Byzantines before it was seized in 541 by the Sasanian king Khosrow I, and his Lazi allies. This conquest gave the Sassanian Empire access to the Black Sea and marked the beginning of the Lazic War.
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