Dr. Eve MacDonald
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Trajan briefly, briefly crosses the Euphrates and founds three provinces in the region of Mesopotamia and the upper Tigris.
Yes.
And um he
Uh
But of course Trajan dies really soon afterwards and that sort of all collapses and there's a withdrawal.
But it's Septimius Severus actually who very much imposes more permanent
Roman provincial regions in what's called the Trans Tigranian territories.
Now, if you think exactly the upper regions of Iraq, parts of Turkey and and Armenia, that area that would be what we're talking about.
And um it's it's so vital for the communications north and south, up from Mesopotamia up.
up into and across the Caucasus and east and west across the northern air area of the um
of the region too.
So there have been Roman territories founded in the upper Tigris River.
And um the last sort of event is Caracalla who becomes uh who before he dies in 217 he leads an invasion
In all the way to the Parthian capital of Tisophon.
Supposedly, he tricks the Parthians into thinking he's going to marry the daughter of the king.
And then they have this uh kind of Parthian red wedding experience where the Parthians all come out to celebrate the marriage, and then Caracalla slaughters them all.
And this is this is Artabanis and his daughter.
This is in Herodian, who is a
Pretty spurious source for the period.
But what it tells us is that for the latter part of the second century AD and into the early third century AD, the Romans are occupying part of the upper Tigris region, so across the Euphrates.
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