{"slug": "palmyrene-empire", "label": "Palmyrene Empire", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmyrene_Empire", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q877875", "qid": "Q877875", "description": "breakaway state from the Roman Empire (270–273)", "entries": 7, "years": 6, "span": [240, 275], "span_label": ["240 CE", "275 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "zenobia", "label": "Zenobia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "aurelian", "label": "Aurelian", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "roman-empire", "label": "Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "gaul", "label": "Gaul", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "rhine", "label": "Rhine", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "gallic-empire", "label": "Gallic Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "britannia", "label": "Britannia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sassanid-empire", "label": "Sassanid Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ctesiphon", "label": "Ctesiphon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cappadocia", "label": "Cappadocia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "palmyra", "label": "Palmyra", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "egypt-roman-province", "label": "Egypt (Roman province)", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 240, "year_label": "240 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Zenobia, queen of the Palmyrene Empire (d. 274)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371189859#Births", "title": "240", "revid": 1371189859, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 266, "year_label": "266 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Odaenathus of Palmyra invades Persia to conquer the capital, Ctesiphon, and twice comes as far as the walls of the Persian capital, but fails to take it. After his victories in the East, he pronounces himself with the title \"king of kings\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267068793#Roman_Empire", "title": "266", "revid": 1267068793, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 267, "year_label": "267 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Septimius Odaenathus of Palmyra makes plans for a campaign in Cappadocia against the Goths. He is assassinated, along with his eldest son, most probably by his nephew due to a previous altercation between him and Odaenathus. His wife Zenobia succeeds him, and rules Vaballathus (the Palmyrene Empire) with her young son.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367427906#Near_East", "title": "267", "revid": 1367427906, "section": "Events › By place › Near East"}}, {"year": 272, "year_label": "272 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Aurelian launches a two-pronged invasion of the Palmyrene Empire, sending his commander Marcus Aurelius Probus to restore Roman rule in Egypt while he marches into Asia Minor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371192173#Roman_Empire", "title": "272", "revid": 1371192173, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 274, "year_label": "274 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Châlons: The Emperor Aurelian invades Gaul to campaign against the Gallic Empire (Gaul and Britain). In the Catalaunian Plains, the Romano-Gallic Emperor Tetricus I surrenders to Aurelian and leaves his army without an emperor. The Gallic army is then crushed by Aurelian in a major battle. With the conquests of the Palmyrene Empire and the Gallic Empire, the Roman Empire is united again. However, the heavy losses incurred by the Gallic forces compromises the Rhine frontier.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1271086341#Roman_Empire", "title": "274", "revid": 1271086341, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 274, "year_label": "274 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "After 274 – Septimia Zenobia, queen of the Palmyrene Empire (b. 240)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1271086341#Deaths", "title": "274", "revid": 1271086341, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 275, "year_label": "275 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Approximate date – Septimia Zenobia, queen of the Palmyrene Empire (b. c. 240)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1308801318#Deaths", "title": "275", "revid": 1308801318, "section": "Deaths"}}]}