Antioch, or Antioch-on-the-Orontes to distinguish it from other, more recent Antiochs, is a historically significant city originally founded on the left bank of the Orontes in historical Syria. Its location is now part of the modern city of Antakya, in Turkey.<hr>
        Zabas is a lieutenant of Zenobia. After Aurelian captured them both in Emesa, they managed to escape.<hr>
        Emesa is a city in Syria, currently known as Homs.<hr>
        The Saracens is a term used in early centuries, in both Greek and Latin writings, to refer to the people who lived in and near the Roman provinces of Arabia and Deserted Arabia which corresponds to present-day Jordan and Syria.<hr>
        Armenians are a people originally from the Caucasus and the Armenian highlands.<hr>
        The Pannonians are the people of Pannonia, an ancient region of Central Europe, bordered to the north by the Danube and now spanning across present-day Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, and portions of northwestern Serbia and northern Bosnia-Herzegovina.<hr>
        The Dalmatians are an ancient people belonging to the Illyrian tribes, 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, to the Berber populations of North Africa, particularly the Maghreb.<hr>
        The Celts or Celtic peoples were a composite 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 in Anatolia, in present-day Turkey.<hr>
        Phoenicia is a region roughly corresponding to modern-day Lebanon.<hr>
        Mucapor is an enigmatic character. Little information about him has survived history. What is known is that he was a friend and assassin of Emperor Aurelian.<hr>
        Venus is the goddess of love, seduction, and feminine beauty in Roman mythology. She was early on equated with the Greek goddess Aphrodite.<hr>
        Octavius is the first Roman emperor. He waged war against Cleopatra's Egypt and emerged victorious.<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, was a Roman politician. He is considered in history a stoic figure, famed for his steadfastness. He is known for having committed suicide by opening his chest with his sword to avoid servitude.<hr>
        Portia is a woman of ancient Rome, daughter of Cato of Utica and wife of Brutus, died in 42 BC. Writings say she killed herself by swallowing hot coals.<hr>
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