{"id":460,"date":"2000-10-19T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2000-10-19T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.davin.net\/wp\/?p=460"},"modified":"2025-10-19T20:05:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T20:05:04","slug":"queen-zenobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.davin.net\/wp\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"Queen Zenobia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Queen Zenobia was the supreme ruler  of  Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean successfully defeating the Roman Empire in 240 AD and conquering Egypt freeing it from Rome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-235 size-full\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.davin.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/mvc-018f-2.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.davin.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/mvc-018f-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog.davin.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/mvc-018f-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#867585\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-large-font-size\"><em>The city of Palmyria Was the capital city for Queen Zenoba&#8217;s empire<\/em>. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the ruins of her palace and Temple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In 270, Zenobia launched an invasion that brought most of the Roman East under her sway and culminated with the annexation of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roman_Egypt\">Egypt<\/a>. By mid-271 her realm extended from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ancyra\">Ancyra<\/a>, central&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anatolia\">Anatolia<\/a>, to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Upper_Egypt\">Upper Egypt<\/a><\/em>,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zenobia\">Septimia Zenobia<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palmyrene_Aramaic\">Palmyrene Aramaic<\/a>:\u00a0\ud802\udc61\ud802\udc76\ud802\udc66\ud802\udc61\ud802\udc69\u200e,\u00a0<em>Bat-Zabbai<\/em>;\u00a0c.\u00a0240 \u2013 c. 274) was a third-century queen of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palmyrene_Empire\">Palmyrene Empire<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syria_(region)\">Syria<\/a>. Many legends surround her ancestry; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen Zenobia was the supreme ruler of Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean successfully defeating the Roman Empire in 240 AD and conquering Egypt freeing it from Rome. This is the ruins of her palace and Temple. In 270, Zenobia launched an invasion that brought most of the Roman East under her sway and culminated with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,18,4,1,7,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-ruins-of-empires","category-syria","category-travel","category-uncategorized","category-war","category-zenobia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.davin.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.davin.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.davin.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davin.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davin.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davin.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1216,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davin.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/1216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.davin.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davin.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davin.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}