Khosrow sacks Antioch
540 · Event
Breaking the Eternal Peace, Khosrow I captures and burns Antioch, the empire's third city, and deports its people to a new city in Persia.
On these timelines: Justinian and Theodora, Persia and Iran, Roman History, The Levant, Master
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