Syrian Queen Septimia Zenobia ruled the Palmyrene Empire in the third century A.D. Her ancestry is shrouded in many traditions; she was likely not a commoner and she wed Odaenathus, the lord of the city. In 260 A.D. , when her husband became king, he led Palmyra to the top of the Near Eastern power structure by defeating the Sasanian Empire of Persia and establishing stability in the Roman East. Following the murder of Odaenathus, Zenobia assumed de facto control over her son Vaballathus and served as his regent. Invasion by Zenobia in 270 resulted in the conquest of Egypt and the subjugation of the majority of the Roman East. Although she continued to be formally subordinate to Rome, by the middle of 271 her domain had spread from Ancyra in central Anatolia to Upper Egypt. However, Zenobia proclaimed her son emperor and adopted the title of empress in response to the campaign of the Roman emperor Aurelian in 272, signaling separation of Palmyra from Rome. After fierce combat, the Romans triumphed; the empress was besieged in her city and taken prisoner by Aurelian, who banished her to Rome where she lived out the rest of her days. Being a learned ruler, Zenobia cultivated an intellectual atmosphere in her court that was welcoming to academics and philosophers. She was kind to her people and stood out for religious minorities. The empress oversaw a multiracial, multiethnic empire with a reliable government. After her death in 274, the destiny of Zenobia was the subject of numerous stories. She is a national figure in Syria, and her ascent and fall have served as an inspiration to historians, painters, and novelists [Information and Image Credit : Zenobia, Wikipedia] [Wikipedia-Link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenobia ] [Wikipedia-Image-Author : Henri Seyrig;] [Image : Lead token naming Zenobia as queen c. 268] [Image : The work(Image) is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1928 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. ] [Wikipedia-Source-Image-Link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zenobia_lead_token.png ] #History
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