Palmyrene Empire

E45481

ancient Near Eastern state breakaway state client state of the Roman Empire historical empire

The Palmyrene Empire was a short-lived breakaway state centered on the city of Palmyra in Syria that, under Queen Zenobia in the 3rd century CE, controlled much of the Roman East before being reconquered by Rome.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Palmyrene Empire canonical	19
Palmyrene Kingdom	2
Palmyra Empire	1

Statements (53)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient Near Eastern state ⓘ breakaway state ⓘ client state of the Roman Empire ⓘ historical empire ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Palmyrene Empire ⓘ surface form: Palmyra Empire Palmyrene Empire ⓘ surface form: Palmyrene Kingdom
basedOn	caravan trade wealth of Palmyra ⓘ
capital	Palmyrene region ⓘ surface form: Palmyra
causeOfEnd	reconquest by Aurelian ⓘ
conflict	Roman–Palmyrene War ⓘ
continent	Asia ⓘ
culturalInfluence	Greco-Roman culture ⓘ Semitic culture ⓘ
currency	Roman coinage ⓘ
defeatedBy	Roman emperor Aurelian ⓘ
emergedFrom	Roman Empire ⓘ city-state of Palmyra ⓘ
endTime	273 CE ⓘ
era	Crisis of the Third Century ⓘ
event	Battle of Emesa ⓘ Battle of Immae ⓘ Siege of Palmyra (272) ⓘ
founder	Odaenathus ⓘ
governmentType	military monarchy ⓘ monarchy ⓘ
historicalPeriod	3rd century CE ⓘ
language	Greek ⓘ Latin ⓘ Palmyrene Aramaic ⓘ
notableLeader	Lucius Iulius Aurelius Septimius Vaballathus Athenodorus ⓘ Septimia Zenobia ⓘ Odaenathus ⓘ surface form: Septimius Odaenathus
opponent	Roman Empire ⓘ
partOf	history of Syria ⓘ history of the Roman Empire ⓘ
queen	Zenobia ⓘ
region	Byzantine Empire ⓘ surface form: Roman East
religion	Greco-Roman polytheism ⓘ Palmyrene paganism ⓘ early Christianity ⓘ
ruler	Odaenathus ⓘ Vaballathus ⓘ Zenobia ⓘ
startTime	c. 260 CE ⓘ
subordinateTo	nominal authority of Roman emperor Claudius Gothicus ⓘ nominal authority of Roman emperor Gallienus ⓘ
successor	Roman Empire ⓘ
territoryIncludes	Arabian Peninsula ⓘ surface form: Arabia Egypt ⓘ Palestine ⓘ Syria ⓘ parts of Asia Minor ⓘ parts of Mesopotamia ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Palmyrene Empire
Description of subject: The Palmyrene Empire was a short-lived breakaway state centered on the city of Palmyra in Syria that, under Queen Zenobia in the 3rd century CE, controlled much of the Roman East before being reconquered by Rome.

Referenced by (22)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Crisis of the Third Century → separatedInto → Palmyrene Empire ⓘ

Palmyrene Empire → alsoKnownAs → Palmyrene Empire ⓘ

this entity surface form: Palmyrene Kingdom

Palmyrene Empire → alsoKnownAs → Palmyrene Empire ⓘ

this entity surface form: Palmyra Empire

Palmyrene region → partOf → Palmyrene Empire ⓘ

Palmyrene alphabet → associatedWith → Palmyrene Empire ⓘ

Palmyrene Aramaic → associatedWith → Palmyrene Empire ⓘ

Odaenathus → associatedWith → Palmyrene Empire ⓘ

Zenobia → countryRuled → Palmyrene Empire ⓘ

Septimia Zenobia → reignedOver → Palmyrene Empire ⓘ

Roman–Palmyrene War → conflictBetween → Palmyrene Empire ⓘ

Roman–Palmyrene War → opponent → Palmyrene Empire ⓘ

Roman–Palmyrene War → belligerent → Palmyrene Empire ⓘ

Siege of Palmyra (272) → belligerent → Palmyrene Empire ⓘ

Siege of Palmyra (272) → combatant2 → Palmyrene Empire ⓘ

Siege of Palmyra (272) → associatedWith → Palmyrene Empire ⓘ

Vaballathus → ruledEntity → Palmyrene Empire ⓘ

Lucius Iulius Aurelius Septimius Vaballathus Athenodorus → countryRuled → Palmyrene Empire ⓘ

Battle of Immae → combatant → Palmyrene Empire ⓘ

Battle of Immae → belligerent → Palmyrene Empire ⓘ

Battle of Emesa → belligerent → Palmyrene Empire ⓘ

Battle of Emesa → associatedWith → Palmyrene Empire ⓘ

Great Colonnade of Palmyra → historicalEra → Palmyrene Empire ⓘ

this entity surface form: Palmyrene Kingdom