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Alaina
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Alaina may be the Eleia of the ancient writers, a place near Singara in the Mesopotamian steppe. If so, it saw a night battle: in 348 the emperor Constantius, after an early success, was utterly defeated there by the Persians in a surprise attack after dark. The site is perhaps Tell Hayal. On the map a branch road towards Seleucia seems to set out from Alaina, but older research thought that stations had dropped out here and that the branch really began at Hatra.
Fully based on scientific information from TP-Online (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt).
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