Year 248 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Republic at the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cotta and Geminus...

This article concerns the period 249 BC – 240 BC. The Battle of Drepana involves the Romans, under the command of the Roman consul Publius Claudius Pulcher...

the Medes, who unified Iran as a nation and empire in 625 BC. The Achaemenid Empire (550–330 BC), founded by Cyrus the Great, was the largest empire the...

Year 247 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Metellus and Buteo (or, less frequently...

Year 251 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Metellus and Pacilus (or, less frequently...

Year 249 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pulcher and Pullus (or, less frequently...

The year 245 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Buteo and Bulbus (or, less frequently...

Year 250 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Regulus and Longus (or, less frequently...

Year 246 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Crassus and Licinus (or, less frequently...

4th century BC – State leaders in the 2nd century BC – State leaders by year This is a list of state leaders in the 3rd century BC (300–201 BC). Cyrene (complete...

put most of its ships into reserve to save money and free up manpower. By 248 BC the Carthaginians held only two cities on Sicily: Lilybaeum and Drepana;...

(/ˈhænɪbəl/; Punic: 𐤇𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋, romanized: Ḥanībaʿl; 247 – between 183 and 181 BC) was a Carthaginian general and statesman who commanded the forces of Carthage...

Turkmenistan. Parthian was the language of state of the Arsacid Parthian Empire (248 BC – 224 AD), as well as of its eponymous branches of the Arsacid dynasty of...

(elected 263 BC) Gaius Duilius (elected 260 BC) Gaius Aurelius Cotta (elected 252 and 248 BC) Gaius Fundanius Fundulus (elected 243 BC) Gaius Lutatius...

lineage back to Gaius Aurelius Cotta, consul of the Roman Republic in 252 BC and 248 BC. The House of Contarini is one of the twelve founding families of the...

Consulship of Rufus and Aquilinus (or, less frequently, year 248 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 506 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval...

Arsinoe I (Ancient Greek: Ἀρσινόη, 305 BC – after c. 248 BC) was queen of Egypt by marriage to Ptolemy II Philadelphus. Arsinoe I was the second daughter...

the known victors of the ancient Olympic Games from the 1st Games in 776 BC up to 264th in 277 AD, as well as the games of 369 AD before their permanent...

was an imperial cult in ancient Egypt during the Hellenistic period (323–31 BC), promoted by the Ptolemaic dynasty. The core of the cult was the worship...

tribe that had taken control over this area in the year 128 BC. During the Arsacid dynasty (248 BC to 224 AD), the province became the seat of Suren-Pahlav...

the military tribune of 72 BC. Gnaeus Servilius, grandfather of Publius Servilius Geminus, the consul of 252 and 248 BC. Possibly the same Gnaeus Servilius...

but its inhabitants had been secretly removed by the Carthaginians). In 248 BC, he obtained the consulship a second time, together with his former colleague...

same calendar system with minor modifications, and dated their era from 248 BC, the date they succeeded the Seleucids. Their names for the months and days...

Marcus Cornelius Cethegus (c. 248 BC – 196 BC) was a Roman Republican consul and censor during the Second Punic War, best known as a political ally of...

referred to as Samiti and Sabha.[citation needed] The Parthian Empire (248 BC–224 AD), also known as the Arsacid Empire, is considered to be the oldest...

practice, see filiation. Gaius Aurelius L. f. C. n. Cotta, consul in 252 and 248 BC, during the First Punic War, he fought against the Carthaginians in Sicily...

same calendar system with minor modifications, and dated their era from 248 BC, the date they succeeded the Seleucids. Their names for the months and days...

comic poet of 4th century BC Simylus, Athenian tragic actor of 4th century BC Simylus of Neapolis, Olympic winner in stadion 248 BC Simylus, poor farmer in...

Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, a breakaway state from the Seleucid Empire founded in 248 BC by Diodotus I, for roughly a century. Euthydemus I, a former satrap of Sogdiana...

— Ferdowsi Nowruz was the holiday of Parthian dynastic empires who ruled Iran (248 BC–224 AD) and the other areas ruled by the Arsacid dynasties outside of Parthia...