🇬🇧 en de 🇩🇪

Asiatic Vespers properNoun

  • (historical) An incident in 88 BCE, in which a coordinated massacre of Roman citizens in various towns in Anatolia was undertaken at the behest of King Mithridates VI of Pontus, which served as casus belli for Rome to instigate the First Mithridatic War.
 Blutbefehl von Ephesos, Vesper von Ephesos, asiatische Vesper
Wiktionary Links