{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Byzantine-Sasanian Wars - Part 3: Escalation and the devastation of war","description":"After Amida, the world was changed. The frontier, once dotted with forts and villages, became a bleeding wound. Armies swelled. Violence grew. The land itself seemed to groan beneath the march of thousands.\r\n\r\nFields that once grew wheat now churned with mud and blood. Smoke hung in the air for weeks at a time. In five hundred thirty, the siege of Dara marked a new chapter. The city’s walls bristled with new defenses, the work of Belisarius—a general whose name would echo across the ages. The Sasanian host appeared on the horizon, a sea of banners and armored men. Inside Dara, defenders prepared for the worst.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://theconflictarchive.com/conflict/byzantine-sasanian-wars","author_name":"The Archive Network"}