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Battle of Nisibis (541)

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The '''Battle of [[Nusaybin|Nisibis]]''' was fought between Byzantine forces under [[Belisarius]] and [[Peter (Byzantine General under Justinian I)|Peter]] and a [[Sasanian Empire|Sassanian]] garrison under Nobades.<ref name=":0">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (2 for 1)</ref> It took place while the [[List of shahanshahs of the Sasanian Empire|Sassanian]] [[shah]], [[Khosrow I|Khosrow]], was attacking Byzantine positions further north. It was part of a Byzantine offensive led by Belisarius into Persian land.<ref name=":0" /> When Belisarius arrived in the area he stationed his troops a significant distance away from the city so if the Sassanians sallied out and were defeated his men could chase them as long as possible.<ref name=":0" /> A Byzantine commander named Peter disagreed and moved his contingent closers to the city.<ref name=":0" /> Belisarius warned Peter that because the Byzantines didn’t normally eat until midday the garrison would sally out then so the Byzantines would have to fight while hungry.<ref name=":0" /> Peter ignored this and at midday his man dispersed to eat.<ref name=":0" /> When the Sassanians sallied out his small, hungry and disorganised unit was routed losing 50 men and their standard.<ref name=":0" /> He immediately called on Belisarius for help.<ref name=":0" /> When the message reached him Belisarius, he had already seen the dust clouds produced by the Sassanian sally and was well on his way.<ref name=":0" /> Despite the garrison being overwhelmed by the Byzantine army they suffered only 150 casualties as they quickly retreated to the city, exactly what Belisarius had sought to avoid.<ref name=":0" />

== Aftermath ==
Recognising Nobades wouldn’t leave the city again out of fear for another such engagement Belisarius could now bypass the city as its garrison wouldn’t attack him in the rear.<ref name=":0" /> After an assault of Sisauranon failed he sent troops to raid rich normally safe Persian territory across the [[Tigris]].<ref name=":0" /> After procuring much wealth from the area the Byzantine raiding forces split up and went home as some were afraid Belisarius would take their loot.<ref name=":0" /> Belisarius wanted to return home too as to avoid being surprised by the arrival of Persian forces under Khosrow.<ref name=":0" /> Procopius later claimed this because of Belisarius wanting to confront his wife [[Antonina (wife of Belisarius)|Antonina]], who’s lover his troops had imprisoned, as soon as possible about her affair.<ref name=":0" /> Claiming that Belisarius could have reached [[Ctesiphon]] as the path remained undefended.<ref name=":0" /> This argument is flawed however as the same information about the location of Persian troops had not been available to Belisarius.<ref name=":0" />


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