214 BC

Guangzhou, also known as Canton, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong in southern China. Located on the Pearl River, about northwest of Hong Kong and north of Macau, Guangzhou has a history of over 2,200 years and was a major terminus of the Silk Road.

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214-212 BCE siege of the Second Punic War ending in the fall of the Hellenistic city of Syracuse to the Roman Republic

214 BCE battle of the Second Punic War

battle fought in 214 BCE near modern Benevento during the Second Punic War, in which Roman legions under Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus defeated Hanno's Carthaginian forces, denying Hannibal reinforcements