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Carrhae

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Carrhae (kâr`ē), Roman name for the ancient Mesopotamian city of Haran Haran or Harran , ancient city of Mesopotamia, now in SE Asian Turkey, 24 mi (39 km) SE of Şanlıurfa. It was an important center on the trade route from Nineveh to Carchemish and the seat of the Assyrian moon god.
..... Click the link for more information. . The name Carrhae is best known because of the battle of Carrhae in 53 B.C. M. Licinius Crassus (see Crassus Crassus , ancient Roman family, of the plebeian Licinian gens. It produced men who achieved great note in the 2d cent. and 1st cent. B.C.

One of the well-known members was

Lucius Licinius Crassus, d. 91 B.C.
..... Click the link for more information. , family) was defeated by the Parthians, who by their archery routed the Roman force.
Carrhae 

an ancient city in northwestern Mesopotamia (themodern city of Harran in Turkey), near which a battle occurredon May 9, 53 b.c., between the Roman forces of M. Crassus(more than 40, 000 men) and the Parthian troops of Sureñas. TheParthian superiority in cavalry resulted in the rout of the Romanadvance guard and the disorderly retreat of the Romans towardCarrhae. On May 10, Crassus was killed during negotiations andthe remnants of the demoralized Roman army (12, 000–14, 000)withdrew beyond the Euphrates River.
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What followed--unlike the later disastrous retreats in the Western collective memory, such as Romans slaughtered after Crassus's disaster at Carrhae or Napoleon's apocalyptic flight from Czarist Russia--was a gallant nine-month trek over some 1,500 miles northward to the Black Sea, and then west along its shore to European Byzantium.
Thalatta! Thalatta! by Hanson, Victor Davis / New Criterion
Such was the case with the Parthians at Carrhae and the Germans at Teutoberg, both of which resulted in the slaughter of entire legions.
Lessons of Rome: the rise and fall of the Roman Republic provides ... by Bonta, Steve / The New American
This, the battle of Carrhae, was one of Rome's worst military defeats ever.
The rise of Caesarism: the weakened Roman Republic was crushed by ... by Bonta, Steve / The New American
 
 
 
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