The
Kitos War (115–117) (:
mered ha'galuyot or
mered ha'tfutzot (מרד התפוצות); translation: rebellion of the diaspora. ) occurred during the period of the
Jewish–Roman wars, 66-135. While the majority of the
Roman armies were fighting Trajan's Parthian War on the eastern border of the
Roman Empire, major uprisings by ethnic
Judeans in
Cyrene, Libya,
Cyprus and
Egypt spiraled out of control, resulting in a widespread slaughter of left behind Roman garrisons and Roman citizens by Jewish rebels. Some of the areas with the heaviest massacres were left so utterly annihilated that others were made to settle these areas to prevent the absence of any remaining presence. The rebellions were finally crushed by
Roman legionary forces, chiefly by the Roman general
Lusius Quietus, whose
nomen later gave the conflict its title, as "Kitos" is a later corruption of Quietus.