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Battle of Cana
| Battle of Cana | |||||||
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 Minted Greek coins showing Antiochus XII | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Seleucid Empire | Nabataean Kingdom | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Antiochus XII † | Obodas I | ||||||
The Battle of Cana was fought between Greek Seleucid Empire under king Antiochus XII Dionysus, and the Arab Nabataean Kingdom. Cana is an unknown village; scholars place it somewhere south or southwest of the Dead Sea.[1]
After the Nabataeans ambushed the Judaean Hasmoneans in a steep valley, they gained new territories, and the Greek Seleucids stationed in Damascus felt threatened by the rising power of the Nabataeans to their south.[2]
Antiochus was slain during the combat and the battle became a decisive Nabataean victory.[3][4] Antiochus's demoralized army fled and perished from starvation in the desert afterwards.[2]
- ^ Atkinson, Kenneth (2016). A History of the Hasmonean State: Josephus and Beyond. T&T Clark Jewish and Christian Texts. Vol. 23. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-567-66903-2.
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