The battle Yawm Halima (Arabic: يوم حليمة, lit. ’Day of Halima’) is the name given to a battle fought between the rival Ghassanid and Lakhmid Arabs in the 6th century. Considered “one of the most famous battles of pre-Islamic Arabia”, it was named after Princess Halima, who led the battle in revenge for the sacrifice of her brother to the goddess of the Lakhmids. The Lakhmids were clients of the Sassanid Persians, and the perennial tribal warfare between them and the Ghassanids was combined with the larger rivalry between Byzantium and Persia, with the Arabs fighting as auxiliaries for the two great empires.
Yawm Halima is now commonly identified with a battle fought in June 554 near Chalcis (modern Qinnasrin), where the Ghassanids confronted one of Mundhir’s raids. The Lakhmids were defeated and their king Mundhir fell on the field.
-excerpted from the blog of https://https://womenshistorymonth.wordpress.com/resources/women-and-series/women-and-war/female-warriors/
