Jan 7

The Number of Roman Casualties in Only Two Wars with Iran (during the period of Shapoor II)

Constantinius II This piece of history will be completely edited later          The official report of the wars between Iran and Rome, in the years AD 348 and 350 (during the reign of Shapoor II, famous as Zolaktaf), which was completed by the Roman army on 20 October AD 351 and signed by Constantinius II, the Roman Emperor, on 7 January AD 352, and sent to the Roman Senate for information, and then filed in the Roman government’s archive, and now kept in Vatican Archive, shows:          The AD 348 war (first war) 50,231 killed     The AD 351 war (second war) 39,012 killed          The dates, after calculating with the new Christian calendar, have been corrected by the archive curator. Both these wars were started by the Romans, in which they lost. Let us imagine if there did not exist a power by the name of Iran to stand against the greed and over-ambitiousness of the Romans what misfortunes would fall on the East – the same misfortune that, in the absence of a power like Iran, has come over it from the beginning of the 19th century upto date (excluding a few decades when there was the Russian power). The East owes to Iranian heroes who rolled in their blood and saved their independence and identity for many centuries.          Translation by Rowshan Lohrasbpour (AmordadNews writer)