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A quick note here - the enemies of the Romans in this battle were not Persians. They were Pontics - people of Mithridates' kingdom of Pontus.
The 'Persians' were the people of Iran, over a thousand miles away. The battle of Zela took place at a time when Anatolia was not under the control of either the Achaemenid Persians nor the later Sassanians.
P. Matyszak. D. Phil
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A quick note here - the enemies of the Romans in this battle were not Persians. They were Pontics - people of Mithridates' kingdom of Pontus.
The 'Persians' were the people of Iran, over a thousand miles away. The battle of Zela took place at a time when Anatolia was not under the control of either the Achaemenid Persians nor the later Sassanians.
P. Matyszak. D. Phil