Rome's brutal twenty-year campaign to subdue the Celtiberian stronghold of Numantia in Spain. The city's defenders chose mass suicide over surrender, and Scipio Aemilianus razed the city after a prolonged siege.

Standing in 154 BCE

Records whose own span was running in this exact year.

Celts Polity · Europe Founded 1200 BCE · attested to 100 BCE Carthaginian Empire Polity · Europe 801 BCE – 145 BCE Saami Polity · Europe 1500 BCE – 700 CE Plitvice Lakes Landmark · Europe 3000 BCE – still standing Giant's Causeway Landmark · Europe 3000 BCE – still standing Danube Delta Landmark · Europe 3000 BCE – still standing

Around the same time

The nearest dated moments on either side.

167 BCE Maccabean Revolt 150 BCE Qumran 135 BCE First Servile War 120 BCE Ctesiphon 113 BCE Cimbrian War 112 BCE Jugurthine War

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Numantine War« ВЭС ». ( СПб; 1914 год ). · Public domain