Battle of Apamea (573 CE)

The sack of Apamea was a sack in 573 during the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 572–591

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When Khosrow I was besieging Dara he sent Adarmahan at the head of an army with 6,000 soldiers to invade the Roman province of Syria.He burned around the city of Antioch and entered the city of Apamea. Adarmahan thoroughly sacked and burned Apamea, and captured 292,000 civilian. Two thousand virgins whom Chos-roes was to send to the king of the Turks, chose self-immolation rather than submit to the humiliation of becoming the harem of the Turkish chagan in central Asia. The figure seems inflated, because the Persians could not have managed or fed so many prisoners and despite the demographic disaster Apamea did survive as a smaller city Apamea's great Cathedral of the East, probably containing a relic of the True Cross, was never restored. Whether this was through lack of will or resources is unclear

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The sack of Apamea was a sack in 573 during the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 572–591

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