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Harran
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Har·ran  (hä-rän)
See Haran.
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What followed--unlike the later disastrous retreats in the Western collective memory, such as Romans slaughtered after Crassus's disaster at Carrhae or Napoleon's apocalyptic flight from Czarist Russia--was a gallant nine-month trek over some 1,500 miles northward to the Black Sea, and then west along its shore to European Byzantium.
Thalatta! Thalatta! by Hanson, Victor Davis / New Criterion
Such was the case with the Parthians at Carrhae and the Germans at Teutoberg, both of which resulted in the slaughter of entire legions.
Lessons of Rome: the rise and fall of the Roman Republic provides ... by Bonta, Steve / The New American
This, the battle of Carrhae, was one of Rome's worst military defeats ever.
The rise of Caesarism: the weakened Roman Republic was crushed by ... by Bonta, Steve / The New American
 
 
 
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