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Conflict Europe

First Servile War

135 BCE – 132 BCE · 3 years

The first major slave uprising in the Roman Republic. Eunus, a Syrian slave, proclaimed himself king and led tens of thousands of slaves in revolt across Sicily before Roman legions crushed the rebellion.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Roman Republic
  • Slave rebels under Eunus

Key moments

Defining events in the First Servile War.

  1. 135 BC Capture of Enna
  2. 132 BC Siege of Tauromenium
  3. 132 BC Fall of Enna

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