id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5495 Palmyrene Empire - Wikipedia .html text/html 6411 1208 74 The Palmyrene leader Odaenathus was declared king,[12] and remained nominally loyal to Gallienus, forming an army of Palmyrenes and Syrian peasants to attack Shapur.[note 2][10] In 260, Odaenathus won a decisive victory over Shapur in a battle near the Euphrates.[11] Next, Odaenathus defeated the usurpers in 261,[11] and spent the remainder of his reign fighting the Persians.[14][15][16] Odaenathus received the title Governor of the East,[11] and ruled Syria as the imperial representative,[17] and declared himself King of Kings.[note 3][20] Odaenathus was assassinated along with his son Hairan in 267;[11] according to Joannes Zonaras and the Augustan History, he was killed by his cousin, whose name is given by the latter source as Maeonius.[21] The Augustan History also claims that Maeonius was proclaimed emperor for a very brief period, before being executed by the soldiers.[21][22][23] No inscriptions or other evidence exist for Maeonius' reign, and he was probably killed immediately after assassinating Odaenathus.[24][25] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5495.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5495.txt