Battle of the Harpasus

Battle of the Harpasus
Date229 BC
LocationHarpasus river, Caria
Result Pergamese victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Pergamon Seleucid Empire
Commanders and leaders
Attalus I Antiochus Hierax

The Battle of the Harpasus was fought in 229 BC between the Pergamese and Seleucid armies on the banks of the Harpasus River, a tributary of the Maeander River in Caria. The battle on the Harpasus was the last battle of the war between King Attalus I of Pergamon and the Seleucid prince Antiochus Hierax over dominion of western Anatolia.[1] Attalus won a decisive victory and Hierax started a failed campaign in Mesopotamia that would lead to his defeat and later death at Egypt.[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Jaques 2007, p. 436

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