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Zenobia was one of the most powerful women in the Near East during the latter half of the third century. The queen of Palmyra, she ended up ruling an short-lived empire that included the Levant, Egypt and most of Anatolia. Any greater ambitions that she may have had were cut short when her army was defeated at Antioch by the Roman army of the emperor Aurelian, returning from campaigning against the Gallic Empire. What if things had turned out differently and Aurelian was the one captured by Queen Zenobia and his army was decisively defeated by the Palmyrene army?
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