Europe, 29 Jun 260: Capture of Valerian
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Political map of Europe & the Mediterranean on 29 Jun 260 (Crisis of the Third Century (I): Capture of Valerian), showing the following events: Battle of Mediolanum; Sack of Tarraco; Shapur I’s third Roman War; Capture of Valerian; Principate of Gallienus.

R o m a n E m p i r e(Gallienus)

F i n n o - U g r i c P e o p l e s

Sasanian
Persian Empire(Shapur I)

S a r m a t i a n s

Mauretania
Tingitana(R. imp.)

Africa Proconsularis(R. sen.)

Lusitania(R. imp.)

Bosporan
Kingdom(Goth pres.)

Macedonia(R. sen.)

Marco-
manni(R. client)

Margiana(Per. vas.)

Colchis(R. client)

Numidia(R. imp.)

Cappadocia(Per. pres.)

Dalmatia(R. imp.)

Noricum(R. imp.)

Phoenice(R. imp.)

Achaea(R. sen.)

Sicily(R. sen.)

Belgica(R. imp.)

Syria Coele(Per. occ.)

Aquitania(R. imp.)

Narbonensis(R. sen.)

Cilicia(Per. occ.)

Mauretania
Caesariensis(R. imp.)

Cyprus(R. sen.)

Lower
Britain(R. imp.)

Bithynia
& Pontus(R. imp.)

Baetica(R. sen.)

Lugdunensis(R. imp.)

Galatia(Per. pres.)

Corsica
&
Sardinia(R. sen.)

Thrace(R. imp.)

Crete
&
Cyrenaica(R. sen.)

Upper
Britain(R. imp.)

Arabia
Petraea(R. imp.)

Tarraconensis(R. imp.)

Palestine(R. imp.)

Raetia(R. imp.)

L.
Pann.(R. imp.)

Upper
Moesia(R. imp.)

Osrhoene(Per. occ.)

Upper
Germania(R. imp.)

Lower
Germania(R. imp.)

Upper
Pannonia(R. imp.)

Epirus(R. imp.)

Lycia &
Pamphylia(R. sen.)

Lower Moesia(R. imp.)

Phrygia & Caria(R. imp.)

Tanukhid
K.(R. client)

Mesopotamia(Per. occ.)

Przeworsk
culture

Rhysaddir?(M.T.)

259Gallienus defeats
Alemanni at Mediolanum

259?–260?Franks cross Gaul
and sack Tarraco

260Persians invade Roman Empire,
raiding as far as Galatia

260Persians capture
Valerian

?? 260–Sep 268Gallienus rules
Roman Empire

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