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Sisauranon,
Sisauronon (Gr****: Σισαυράνων), Sisaurana, or
Sarbane was a
Sasanian fortress city in the
province of Arbayistan,
located to the east of Nisibis...
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siege of
Sisauranon took
place in 541
between Byzantine forces under Belisarius and the S****anian
garrison of the
Sisauranon fortress under Bleschames...
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mentioned in 541 as the head of the
Sasanian garrison of the
fortress Sisauranon,
where he
defected to the
Byzantine army
under Belisarius, who sent him...
- anymore,
mostly because their confidence was broken.
While he
besieged Sisauranon, he sent
troops to raid the rich
lands beyond the Tigris.
While Belisarius'...
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Arbayistan province was
Nisibis and it also
included the
fortress of
Sisauranon. Arbāyistān (from Old
Persian Arabāya-stāna) is
mentioned in
Shapur I's...
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attempts to
retake it failed,
although the
Byzantines won a
battle at
Sisauranon later. Meanwhile, in the Caucasus,
Byzantine and
Iberian offensives were...
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garrison of
Sisauranon under their Persarmenian commander Artabazes that had
recently joined the
Byzantines after the
Siege of
Sisauranon (541). Heather...
- at the
Qartmin abbey,
planted 12,000
trees at the
Lower Monastery near
Sisauranon (which
earned him the name 'of the olives'). The
Khabur River Project...
- Persarmenian. He
originally served as a
cavalryman (aswār) in the
garrison of
Sisauranon, a
frontier stronghold of the
Sasanian Empire which was
captured by Belisarius...
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Byzantine invasion force failed to
capture Nisibis,
though they did took over
Sisauranon as the
garrison defected due to lack of supplies, but thy
eventually had...
