The Persian-Roman Wars refer to a series of battles between the great empires of the east and west with long intermittent periods of peace between them. The antagonists are usually referred to as the Roman vs. the Persian empires, but the 700 years over which the wars spanned, encompassed the late Roman Republic, the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire in the west, and the Parthian and Sassanid Empires in the east. The areas of dispute ranged from the Transcaucus area in the North (Modern day Georgia and Armenia), to the Mesopotamia valley in the east.
