The Siege of Amida took place when the Sassanids (Persian: ساساني), under Shah Shapur II (Persian: شاپور دوم) besieged the Roman city of Amida in 359.
In this battle Ammianus Marcellinus, a historian of Greek origin from Antioch, was a Roman army officer; he described the siege in his work (Res Gestae).
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