Northern Africa, 28 May 272: Aurelian vs Zenobia
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Political map of Northern Africa on 28 May 272 (Africa and Rome in Crisis: Aurelian vs Zenobia), showing the following events: Abandonment of Dacia; Palmyrene Empire; Siege of Tyana; Aurelian’s reconquest of Egypt; Battle of Immae.

R o m a n E m p i r e

N o r t h w e s t e r n

B a n t u

Sasanian
Persian
Empire

N i l o t i c

p e o p l e s

E a s t e r n
B a n t u

Sao
civilization

C u s h i t i c

p e o p l e s

W e s t e r n
B a n t u

Empire of
Aksum

C h a d i c p e o p l e s

A t l a n t i c

↓Rhapta(Ḥim.)

Arabia(Zen. occ.)

Albania(Per. vas.)

(Azores)(uninh.)

Gorgades?
(Cape Verde)(uninh.)

(Madeira)(uninh.)

Fortunate Islands?(uncon.)

Africa Proconsularis(R. sen.)

Crete
&
Cyrenaica(R. sen.)

Mauretania
Tingitana(R. imp.)

Discorida(Ḥaḑ.)

Kinda(Sab. vas.)

Bosporus(R. client)

Corsica
&
Sardinia

Tanukhid
K.(Zen. infl.)

Lakhmid K.(Per. vas.)

Bithynia
& Pontus

Mauretania
Caesariensis(R. imp.)

Numidia(R. imp.)

Phrygia
& Caria

Lycia &
Pamphylia

Sarapion(Ḥim.)

Rhysaddir?(M.T.)

271?–272?Roman army
withdraws
from Dacia

272Vaballathus and Zenobia
proclaimed Augusti

272Aurelian captures Tyana

May 272Roman naval expedition
recaptures Egypt

272Aurelian defeats
Zenobia at Immae

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