Battle of Sariya (274 BC)

The Siege of Sariya was a siege fought during the Syrian Rebellion.

The defeat of the Seleukid forces at Shigra a year early had relieve the immediate danger to the Hyrcanian rebels, and granted them freedom of movement into Seleukid Media. However they failed to organise a proper blocking force in the Albroz and, after a minor engagement, an army of Pantaleon Andromachid made it through the mountains and laid siege to the rebel city. Artayntes Aramid, fresh from his victory at Bistam force marched his army back over the Albroz in an effort to relieve the city. While he came to late to save the city, he fell upon the unsuspecting Seleukid forces and, after a tighly fought battle, managed to rout them. Though a Seleukid defeat in the field, the Hyrcanian leadership had by now been put to death by Pantaleon, and the rebellion would not flare up with the same intensity in Hyrcania.