Year 209 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Verrucosus and Flaccus (or, less frequently...
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Punic Wars (section Iberia, 218–209 BC)
suborning pro-Roman factions. Hannibal repeatedly defeated Roman armies, in 209 BC both consuls were killed in a cavalry skirmish. But wherever his main army...
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This article concerns the 200 BC decade, that lasted from 209 BC to 200 BC. The Romans under Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus capture Tarentum (modern...
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The Battle of Tarentum of 209 BC took place during the Second Punic War. The Romans, led by Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, recaptured the city of Tarentum...
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Battle of New Carthage (redirect from Battle of Cartagena (209 BC))
The battle of New Carthage took place in early 209 BC when a Roman army under Publius Cornelius Scipio successfully assaulted New Carthage, the capital...
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Mirabilis was encountered by the Romans when they conquered the region in 209 BC; despite the Romans banning its production and consumption, the Carthaginians...
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(2300–1000 BC) and Karasuk culture (1500–300 BC), culminating with the Iron Age Xiongnu Empire in 209 BC. Monuments of the pre-Xiongnu Bronze Age include...
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Hellenistic period (redirect from History of Greece (323 BC–146 BC))
in 209 BC from Arsaces II. Arsaces II sued for peace and became a vassal of the Seleucids. It was not until the reign of Phraates I (c. 176–171 BC), that...
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Hannibal (category 3rd-century BC Punic people)
and, in 208 BC, destroyed a Roman force engaged in the siege of Locri at the Battle of Petelia. But with the loss of Tarentum in 209 BC and the gradual...
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Chen Sheng and Wu Guang uprising (category 209 BC)
traditional Chinese: 陳勝吳廣起義; pinyin: Chén Shèng Wú Guǎng Qǐyì), August 209 B.C.– January 208 B.C., was the first uprising against the Qin dynasty following the...
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Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus (category 3rd-century BC births)
(c. 280 – 203 BC), was a Roman statesman and general of the third century BC. He was consul five times (233, 228, 215, 214, and 209 BC) and was appointed...
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Second Punic War (category 200s BC conflicts)
and were badly defeated but maintained their hold on the north-east. In 209 BC the new Roman commander Publius Scipio captured Carthago Nova, the main...
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210 BC Kykliadas of Pharae 210 - 209 BC Philopoemen of Megalopolis I 209 - 208 BC Nikias 208 - 207 BC Philopoemen of Megalopolis II 207 - 206 BC Lysippos...
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Wu Guang (category 200s BC deaths)
(simplified Chinese: 吴广; traditional Chinese: 吳廣, died December 209 BC or January 208 BC) was a leader of the first rebellion against the Qin dynasty during...
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Xiongnu (category States and territories established in the 3rd century BC)
Eurasian Steppe from the 3rd century BC to the late 1st century AD. Modu Chanyu, the supreme leader after 209 BC, founded the Xiongnu Empire. After overthrowing...
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the Warring States period (481 BC – 403 BC) and the Qin state (9th century BC – 221 BC) and dynasty (221 BC – 206 BC). Early Warring States period Qin...
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Timeline of the Xiongnu (section 4th century BC)
nomadic people that dominated the ancient eastern Eurasian steppes from 209 BC to 89 AD. The Xiongnu settled down in northern China during the late 3rd...
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Philopoemen (category 3rd-century BC Greek people)
strategos on eight occasions. From the time he was appointed as strategos in 209 BC, Philopoemen helped turn the Achaean League into an important military power...
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and the Roman Republic: Battle of Tarentum (212 BC) Battle of Tarentum (209 BC) Battle of Tauroento (49 BC), between Caesarian and Pompeian forces near modern...
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Battle of Capua, then captured Capua in 211 BC while serving as a proconsul. In his fourth term as consul (209 BC), he retook Lucania and Bruttium. He opposed...
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city of Tarentum in southern Italy, captured from the Carthaginians in 209 BC. Like all mystery cults, the Bacchanalia were held in strict privacy, and...
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Zhou dynasty (redirect from Chou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC))
years from c. 1046 BC until 256 BC, the longest of all dynasties in Chinese history. During the Western Zhou period (c. 1046 – 771 BC), the royal house...
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the Xiongnu Empire, Orkhon River valley Lungzi City built by Zhaoxin in 120 BC as ordered by the Shanyu Kherlen Tsagaan Aral Terelj Hasar Balgas Bayanbulag...
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Various nomadic empires, including the Xiongnu (3rd century BC–1st century AD), the Xianbei state (c. AD 93–234), the Rouran Khaganate (330–555), the First...
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Zhao Gao (category 207 BC deaths)
Zhao Gao (died c. October 207 BC) was a Chinese politician. He was an official of the Qin dynasty of China. Allegedly a eunuch, he served as a close aide...
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Antiochus, the son of Antiochus III and co-regent for the Seleucid throne since 209 BC, dies; according to cuneiform tablets, news reaches Babylon sometime during...
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Pan-Turkists, Nihal Atsız, asserted that the Turkish Army had been founded in 209 BC, when Modu Chanyu of the Xiongnu is thought to have formed an army based...
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Battle of Canusium (redirect from Battle of Asculum (209 BC))
forces of Rome and Carthage. It took place in Apulia during the spring of 209 BC, the tenth year of the Second Punic War. A larger Roman offensive, of which...
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Ancient Carthage (category 1st millennium BC)
Founded by the Phoenicians in the ninth century BC, Carthage reached its height in the fourth century BC as one of the largest metropoleis in the world...
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List of sieges (section Before 1000 BC)
(209 BC) – Second Punic War Siege of Bactra (208–206 BC) Siege of Utica (204 BC) – Second Punic War Siege of Abydos (200 BC) – Cretan War (205–200 BC)...
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