The following is a list of wars fought between Greeks and Persians.
List
editGreek/Seleucid/Byzantine victory - 10
Iranian/Persian victory - 5
Inconclusive/Victory for either Pro or Anti-Greek forces - 4
Date | War | Belligerents | Belligerents | Result | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ancient Greece (499–323 BC) | |||||
499-493 bc | Ionian Revolt | Greeks | Achaemenid empire | Persian Victory | Persia regains control of Cyprus and Greek cities in Asia Minor Beginning of the first Persian invasion of Greece |
492-490 bc | First Persian invasion of Greece | Greeks | Achaemenid empire | Inconclusive | Persians capture Thrace and part of Macedonia, but they fail to achieve their goals |
480-479 bc | Second Persian invasion of Greece | Greeks | Achaemenid empire | Greek victory | The Greeks expel Persia from Europe,Macedonia,Thrace,Ionia and Aegean Islands returned to the Greeks |
479-478 bc | Greek counterattack | Greeks | Achaemenid empire | Greek victory | Greeks captured Cyprus |
355-328 bc | Persian campaign of Alexander the Great | Macedonia (ancient kingdom) | Achaemenid empire | Greek victory | Macedonia(Greece) annexes Achaemenid empire
|
Seleucid empire (312-129 BC) | |||||
280 bc | First Parni invasion of Margiana | Seleucid Empire | Parni | Seleucid Victory | The military capabilities of the Parni had been weakened as a result of the Seleucid retaliation and victory. |
248-246 bc | Second Parni invasion of Margiana | Seleucid empire | Parni | Seleucid victory | Despite the victory, the Seleucids once again failed to completely neutralize the Parni threat. |
236-235 bc | First Seleucid-Parthian war | Seleucid empire | Parthian empire | Parthian victory | that Seleucus was forced to acquiesce to Arsaces and leave Parthia to its devices |
210-208 bc | Second Seleucid-Parthian war | Seleucid empire | Parthian empire | Seleucid victory | Parthia becomes a vassal of the Seleucid Empire. The Seleucids annex all of Parthia south of the Kopetdag mountain range |
187-166 bc | Third Seleucid–Parthian War | Seleucid Empire | Parthian Empire | Parthian victory | Parthia gains independence from the Seleucids |
165-138 bc | Fourth Seleucid–Parthian War | Seleucid Empire | Parthian Empire | Parthian victory | Parthia captures a large territory in the east and captures the Seleucid Emperor |
148-129 bc | Five Seleucid–Parthian War | Seleucid Empire | Parthian Empire | Parthian victory | Decline of the Seleucids and end of Hellenistic rule in Iran |
Byzantine empire (440-628) | |||||
421-422 | Byzantine-Sasanian war of 421-422 | Byzantine empire | Sasanian empire | Byzantine victory[1][2] | Status quo ante bellum
|
440 | Byzantine–Sasanian War of 440 | Byzantine empire | Sasanian empire | Inconclusive | Status quo ante bellum
|
502-506 | Anastasian War | Byzantine empire | Sasanian empire | Byzantine victory | Status quo ante bellum
|
526-532 | Iberian War | Byzantine empire | Sasanian empire | Inconclusive | Sasanians retained Iberia,Byzantines retained Lazica |
541-562 | Lazic War | Byzantine empire | Sasanian empire | Inconclusive | Fifty-Year Peace Treaty |
572-591 | Byzantine–Sasanian War of 572–591 | Byzantine empire | Sasanian empire | Byzantine victory | Khosrow II is restored to the Sasanian throne,Byzantine empire get most of Persian Armenia and western half of Iberia |
602-628 | Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628 | Byzantine empire | Sasanian empire | Byzantine victory | Status quo ante bellum
|
Notes
edit- ^ Greatrex 1991, p. 40-41.
- ^ Decker 2022, p. 234.
- ^ Greatrex 1991, p. 84.
Sources
edit- Greatrex, Geoffrey (1991). The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian wars.Part II.363-630AD. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-14687-9.
- Decker, Michael J. (2022). The Sasanian empire at War.Persia,Rome and the rise od Islam. Westholme Publishing,LLC. ISBN 978-1-59416-692-1.