Siege of Petra (Q61889639)

matcher place: Georgia (relation 28699), Autonomous Republic of Adjara (relation 1995970)
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English Wikipedia categories: 550 beginnings, 550s conflicts, 550s in the Byzantine Empire, 551 endings, 6th century in the Byzantine Empire, Battles of the Roman–Sasanian Wars, Lazic War, Sieges involving the Byzantine Empire, Sieges involving the Sasanian Empire, Sieges of Petra, Lazica

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Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The siege of Petra was fought in 550 AD, between the Byzantines (East Romans) under general Bessas, and the Sasanian Persian garrison of Petra in the buffer state of Lazica. The strategic fortress had previously been held by the Byzantines before it was seized in 541 by the Sasanian king Khosrow I, and his Lazi allies. This conquest gave the Sassanian Empire access to the Black Sea and marked the beginning of the Lazic War. After a failed attempt to recapture Petra in 549, the Byzantine emperor Justinian I sent an army under Bessas to retake the fortress. The Byzantine historian Procopius described the resulting siege in vivid detail.

Summary from زبان فارسی / Persian Wikipedia (fawiki)

محاصره پترا در سال ۵۵۰ و ۵۵۱ به رهبری بساس فرمانده بیزانسی علیه پادگان نظامی ساسانی در پترا در جریان جنگ لازستان رخ داد. نیروهای پشتیبانی ساسانی نتوانستند به موقع برسند و پترا پس از محاصره‌ای طولانی سقوط کرد. استحکامات آن نیز برچیده شد تا اطمینان حاصل شود که این سنگر استراتژیک دیگر مورد استفاده ساسانیان قرار نخواهد گرفت. روند این نبرد سخت مفصلا توسط پروکوپیوس ثبت شده است.

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