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Although initially different in military tactics, the armies of both sides gradually adopted from each other and by the second half of the 6th century, they were similar and evenly matched. Both sides did make conquests beyond the border, but in time the balance was almost always restored.

Neither side had the logistical strength or manpower to maintain such lengthy campaigns far from their borders, and thus neither could advance too far without risking stretching its frontiers too thin. A game of tug of war ensued: towns, fortifications, and provinces were continually sacked, captured, destroyed, and traded. The wars were ended by the Early Muslim Conquests, which led to the fall of the Sasanian Empire and huge territorial losses for the Byzantine Empire, shortly after the end of the last war between them.ДЄlthough warfare between the Romans and Persians continued over seven centuries, the frontier, aside from shifts in the north, remained largely stable. Various vassal kingdoms and allied nomadic nations in the form of buffer states and proxies also played a role. Battles between the Parthian Empire and the Roman Republic began in 54В BC wars began under the late Republic, and continued through the Roman (later Byzantine) and Sasanian empires.

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The RomanвЂ“Persian Wars, also known as the RomanвЂ“Iranian Wars, were a series of conflicts between states of the Greco-Roman world and two successive Iranian empires: the Parthian and the Sasanian.

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