Asiatic Vespers (English, name)
expansion: Asiatic Vespers
Senses:
glosses: An incident in 88 BCE, in which a coordinated massacre of Roman citizens in various towns in Anatolia was undertaken at the behest of King Mithridates VI of Pontus, which served as casus belli for Rome to instigate the First Mithridatic War.
tags: historical
Forms:
form: Asian Vespers
tags: alternative
form: Ephesian Vespers
tags: alternative
form: Vespers of 88 BC
tags: alternative