Siege of Caesarea Cappadocia (260)

Siege of Caesarea (260)
	Part of the Roman-Persian wars
Date	260
Location	Caesarea, Cappadocia ; (modern-day Kayseri, Turkey)
Result	Sasanian victory
Territorial; changes	Sasanians capture Caesarea
Belligerents
Sassanid Empire	Roman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Shapur I; Hormizd I	Demosthenes
Strength
Unknown	Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown, probably minimal	Unknown number of soldiers killed; Deportation of 400,000 people

The siege of Caesarea by the Sasanians under Shapur I took place following their siege of the Roman city of Antioch in 260 which followed their major victory over the Romans in the Battle of Edessa.

Background

The siege took place during a Sasanian invasion of the Roman east. Caesarea during that time had a large population (about 400,000 inhabitants).

Siege

The Sassanids were unable to take the city, and took a Roman as captive and tortured him until he revealed another route they could use. The Sassanids then raided Caesarea during the night, killing every Roman soldier.

Aftermath

According to Percy Sykes, "He captured Caesarea Mazaca, the greatest city in Cappadocia; but probably from the lack of a standing army, again made no attempt to organize and administer, or even to retain, his conquests. He merely killed and ravaged with barbarous severity".^[2]

References

^ History of the Jews in Babylonia "At that point, and then alone, Shapur made a violent attack upon Syria and Asia Minor, devastated Antiochia, ravaged Cilicia and Cappadocia, took Tarsus, and, after a protracted siege, Caesarea."
^ Percy Sykes, A History of Persia, Vol. I, (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969), 402.

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[1] History of the Jews in Babylonia "At that point, and then alone, Shapur made a violent attack upon Syria and Asia Minor, devastated Antiochia, ravaged Cilicia and Cappadocia, took Tarsus, and, after a protracted siege, Caesarea."

[2] Percy Sykes, A History of Persia, Vol. I, (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969), 402.

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