• The third siege of Babylon took place during Antigonus I Monophthalmus' expedition to the Seleucid domain in the context of the Babylonian War. In 310...
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    of Babylon assembled his army, and after he had invaded the land of Hatti (Syria/Palestine) he laid siege to the city of Judah. On the second day of the...
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    Hellanicus of Lesbos for the siege of Troy (1229 BC), which would date Babylon's foundation to 2231 BC. All of these dates place Babylon's foundation...
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    Zedekiah (category 6th-century BCE kings of Judah)
    twentieth and final King of Judah (or puppet) before the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon. After the siege of Jerusalem in 597 BC,...
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    The fall of Babylon occurred in 539 BC, when the Persian Empire conquered the Neo-Babylonian Empire. The success of the Persian campaign, led by Cyrus...
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    other Babylon. After Nebuchadnezzar was defeated in battle in 601 BCE by Egypt, Judah revolted against Babylon, culminating in a three-month siege of Jerusalem...
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    imprisoned in Babylon. Per the Books of Kings in the Bible, the campaign against Judah was longer than typical Mesopotamian wars, with the siege of Jerusalem...
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    besieged Nabopolassar at the city of Uruk. However, Sinsharishkun failed to capture Babylon, and Nabopolassar endured the siege of Uruk, repulsing the Assyrian...
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    BC Siege of Babylon 626 BC Revolt of Babylon (Decisive Babylonian victory; eviction of Assyrian troops) Neo-Babylonian campaigns 612 BC Battle of Nineveh...
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  • Archon of Athens, dies after a reign of 27 years and is succeeded by his son Agamestor. 796 BC— Adad-Nirari III captures Damascus after a siege against...
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    the brother of Domentianus, had them scourged and their hands cut off. The Siege of Babylon had lasted seven months. On 22 December, Cyrus of Alexandria...
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    The Waco siege, also known as the Waco massacre, was the siege by US federal government and Texas state law enforcement officials of a compound belonging...
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    Babylonia (redirect from Sack of Babylon)
    state and cultural area based on the city of Babylon in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Kuwait, Syria and Iran). It emerged as...
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    Siege of Tyre (701 BC) by the Assyrians under Sennacherib Siege of Babylon (689 BC) Siege of Tyre (671 BC) by the Assyrians under Esarhaddon Siege of...
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     264 CE Battle of Ctesiphon c. 344 CE Battle of Satala c. 359 CE Siege of Singara c. 359 CE Siege of Amida c. April 27, 363 CE Siege of Pirisabora c. May...
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    The sieges of Taunton were a series of three blockades during the First English Civil War. The town of Taunton, in Somerset, was considered to be of strategic...
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    Šamaš-šuma-ukin (category 7th-century BC kings of Babylon)
    Šamaš-šuma-ukin. Babylon was captured by Ashurbanipal in 648 after a lengthy siege and Šamaš-šuma-ukin died, though the exact circumstances of his death are...
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    siege of Jerusalem in 70 CE was the decisive event of the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE), a major rebellion against Roman rule in the province of Judaea...
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    was short-lived, and in the same year, the siege of Babylon was already well underway. It is likely Babylon would have been in a poor position once it...
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    reigned c. 1121–1100 BC) was the fourth king of the Second Dynasty of Isin and Fourth Dynasty of Babylon. He ruled for 22 years according to the Babylonian...
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  • BCE Siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II 587 BCE Siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II 539 BC Fall of Babylon 539 BC Achaemenid conquest of Jerusalem...
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    of Darius. Herodotus ascribes to her the artificial banks that confined the Euphrates. He knew her name because it was inscribed on a gate of Babylon...
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  • antiquity powers of Egypt and Babylon. 582 BC—Akragas is founded on Sicily. 582 BC—Nebuchadnezzar forces a third deportation of Jews from Judah into Babylonian...
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    Truth: A Mother's Deception (1994 NBC). Macht appeared in the 1995 third season Babylon 5 episode "A Day in the Strife" as the character 'Na'Far'. Na'Far...
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    Jehoiakim (category 7th-century BCE kings of Judah)
    of Babylon ... bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon." Jeremiah prophesied that he died without proper funeral, describing the people of Judah...
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    Siege in ancient Rome was one of the techniques used by the Roman army to achieve ultimate victory, although pitched battles were considered the only true...
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  • composed in or near Babylon, and its final redaction was likely completed in the 5th or 6th century. The oldest printed text of 3 Enoch appears to be...
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  • Nabopolassar (category 7th-century BC kings of Babylon)
    and laid siege to both Nabopolassar at Uruk and to Babylon itself. Both sieges were repulsed by Nabopolassar's forces; the siege of Babylon would be the...
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    Cophen campaign (category Wars of Alexander the Great)
    Alexander the Great 900km 559miles 15 Babylon 14 Malavas 13 Hydaspes 12 Cophen 11 Cyropolis 10 Persian Gate 9 Uxians 8 Gaugamela 7 Alexandria 6 Gaza 5...
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    Battle of the Hydaspes. Due to the mutiny of his homesick troops, he eventually turned back at the Beas River and later died in 323 BC in Babylon, the city...
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