Battle of the Harpasus

Short description: Battle between Attalus I and Antiochus Hierax

Battle of the Harpasus

| Date| 229 BC

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Location|

Harpasus river, Caria
(modern-day Turkey)

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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jaques 2007, p. 436

## References

* Jaques, Tony (2007). Dictionary of Battles and Sieges. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-33538-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=Dh6jydKXikoC.

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