Asiatic Vespers
nameEtymology
Alternative version of a calque of French Vèpres éphésiennes (“Ephesian Vespers”), coined 1890 by historian Théodore Reinach by analogy with Sicilian Vespers. Ephesus was one of the towns where the massacre occurred.
Definitions
An incident in 88 BCE, in which a coordinated massacre of Roman citizens in various towns…
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.
The neighborhood
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No curated loop yet for Asiatic Vespers. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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