Year 218 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Scipio and Longus (or, less frequently...
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Punic Wars (section Interbellum, 241–218 BC)
Carthaginian territory known as the Mercenary War. The Second Punic War began in 218 BC and witnessed the Carthaginian general Hannibal's crossing of the Alps and...
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Second Punic War (category 200s BC conflicts)
(218 to 201 BC) was the second of three wars fought between Carthage and Rome, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean in the 3rd century BC....
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Scipio Africanus. A member of the Cornelia gens, Scipio served as consul in 218 BC, the first year of the Second Punic War. At the outbreak of the war, he...
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Hannibal (category 3rd-century BC Punic people)
pledge that Hannibal made to his father to "never be a friend of Rome". In 218 BC, Hannibal attacked Saguntum (modern Sagunto, Spain), an ally of Rome, in...
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connection with Hannibal's crossing of the Alps in 218 BC. Their territory was subsequently annexed to Rome in 121 BC by Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Quintus...
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in the early stages of the Second Punic War in 218 BC. Malta had been Carthaginian territory since 480 BC. During the First Punic War, the island suffered...
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Sempronius and the elder Scipio were elected as consuls for 218 BC. At the outbreak of the war in 218 BC, he was ordered to conduct the war effort in Sicily and...
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the Nalgonda region. Later, the Satavahanas, who ruled between 230 BC and 218 BC, took control of the area. During this period, the region established...
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Cornelius Scipio (consul 218 BC) in the first, as well as a clear defeat of the army of Tiberius Sempronius Longus (consul 218 BC. ) in the second, where...
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The siege of Mutina in 218 BC constitutes one of the first episodes of the Second Punic War. Hannibal's diplomacy in Cisalpine Gaul persuaded the Gallic...
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Battle of Cannae (redirect from Battle of Cannae (216 BC))
tacticians. Having recovered from their losses at Trebia (218 BC) and Lake Trasimene (217 BC), the Romans decided to engage Hannibal at Cannae, with approximately...
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Hasdrubal Barca (redirect from Carthaginian general Hasdrubal d. 207 B.C.)
Hispania when he marched for Italy in 218 BC. Hasdrubal commanded this force and he was to set out for Italy in 217 BC to reinforce Hannibal. Hannibal left...
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This article concerns the period 219 BC – 210 BC. Following the defection of one of Ptolemy IV's leading commanders, Egypt's Syrian territories are seriously...
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returned home for the winter of 218/17 BC. Following a disastrous year under the strategos Eperatus of Pharae, in 217 BC Aratus of Sicyon returned to the...
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222 BC (?) Aratus of Sicyon XII 222 - 221 BC Timoxenos 221 - 220 BC Aratus of Sicyon XIII 220 - 219 BC Aratus the Younger of Sicyon 219 - 218 BC Epiratos...
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Gaius Flaminius (c. 275 BC – 217 BC) was a leading Roman politician in the third century BC. Flaminius served as consul twice, in 223 and 217. He is notable...
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History of Malta (section Neolithic (5900 BC–3850 BC))
colonized by the Phoenicians. They ruled the islands until they fell in 218 BC to the Roman Republic. The island was acquired by the Eastern Romans or...
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Ancient Iberian coinage (section The colonial background: 6th century BC to the Second Punic War (-218 BC))
The history of ancient Iberian coinage begins as early as the fifth century BC, but widespread minting and circulation in the Iberian peninsula did not begin...
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antiquity, is the period of cultural European history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD comprising the interwoven civilizations of ancient...
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Rosetta Stone (category 2nd-century BC steles)
the Decree of Alexandria in 243 BC, the Decree of Canopus in 238 BC, and the Memphis decree of Ptolemy IV, c. 218 BC. Though the Rosetta Stone is known...
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509 BC—Overthrow of the Roman monarchy, and start of the Republican period. First pair of consuls elected. Tarquinian conspiracy formed, but discovered...
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264 BC: First Punic War 218 BC Second Punic War 2nd century BC Rome/Carthage: 149 BC Third Punic War, Roman province of Africa Rome/Greece: 146 BC Battle...
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miles west of Placentia. Here in 222 BC, Marcus Claudius Marcellus defeated the Gauls and won the spolia opima; in 218 BC, Hannibal took it and its stores...
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Battle of Ticinus (category 218 BC)
Hannibal and a Roman army under Publius Cornelius Scipio in late November 218 BC as part of the Second Punic War. It took place in the flat country on the...
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Málaga (category 8th-century BC establishments in Europe)
about 770 BC by the Phoenicians from Tyre as Malaka. From the 6th century BC the city was under the hegemony of Ancient Carthage, and from 218 BC, it was...
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Battle of the Trebia (category 218 BC)
Hannibal and a Roman army under Sempronius Longus on 22 or 23 December 218 BC. Each army had a strength of about 40,000 men; the Carthaginians were stronger...
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surrounding the Second Punic War, Juventas was included in sacrifices in 218 BC relating to a lectisternium, a public banquet at which divine images were...
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forces in the Third Punic War c. 146 BC Hasdrubal (quartermaster), a Carthaginian officer in the Second Punic War c. 218 BC original name of Carthaginian Clitomachus...
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