Thonis-Heracleion is an ancient city of Ancient Egypt, located near the present day Aboukir. It's a strategic port city for entrance into Asia Minor.<hr>
Antioch, or Antioch-on-the-Orontes to distinguish it from other newer Antioch, is a historic city originally founded on the left bank of the Orontes in historical Syria. Its location is part of the modern city of Antakya, in Turkey.<hr>
Zabas is a lieutenant of Zenobia. Both captives of Aurelian in Emesa, they manage to escape.<hr>
Emesa is a city in Syria, currently known as Homs.<hr>
The Saracens is a term used in the early centuries, both in Greek and Latin writings, to refer to the people who lived in and near the Roman provinces of Arabia and Desert Arabia corresponding to today's Jordan and Syria.<hr>
The Armenians are a people originating from the Caucasus and the Armenian plateau.<hr>
The Pannonians are the people of Pannonia, an ancient region of central Europe, bounded to the north by the Danube and straddling the present-day Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, as well as north-western Serbia and the north of Bosnia and Herzegovina.<hr>
The Dalmatians are an ancient people belonging to the family of Illyrian peoples, who occupied the southern region of present-day Croatia.<hr>
The Moors refers to the medieval Muslim and Arab-Berber inhabitants of Iberia, Sicily, Malta and the Maghreb, and originally, during Antiquity, the Berber populations of North Africa, especially the Maghreb.<hr>
The Celts or Celtic peoples were a group of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia, identified by their use of Celtic languages and other cultural similarities.<hr>
Tyana, or Tyane, is an ancient city of Anatolia, in present-day Turkey.<hr>
Phoenicia is a region that approximately corresponds to present-day Lebanon.<hr>
Mucapor is an enigmatic character. Little information about him has survived through history. We know that he is the friend and the murderer of Emperor Aurelian.<hr>
Venus is the goddess of love, seduction, and feminine beauty in Roman mythology. She is quite early assimilated to the Greek goddess Aphrodite.<hr>
Octavian is the first Roman Emperor. He wages a war against Cleopatra's Egypt and wins it.<hr>
Cato of Utica, or Cato the Younger, born in 95 BC in Rome and died on April 12, 46 BC in Utica, present-day Tunisia, father of Portia, is a Roman statesman. He is considered in history as a figure of Stoicism, famous for his firmness of soul. He is known for committing suicide by opening his chest with his sword to avoid servitude.<hr>
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