• The Battle of Nineveh is conventionally dated between 613 and 611 BC, with 612 BC being the most supported date. Rebelling against the Assyrians, an allied...
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  • Battle of Nineveh may refer to: Battle of Nineveh (612 BC), the fall of Assyria Battle of Nineveh (627), the climactic battle of the Byzantine-Sassanid...
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    Dalley (1993), "Nineveh after 612 BC", Altorientalische Forschungen 20(1): 134–147. Menko Vlaardingerbroek (2004), "The Founding of Nineveh and Babylon in...
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  • Battle of Nineveh (612 BC), the fall of Assyria Battle of Nineveh (627), the climactic battle of the Byzantine-Sassanid War Nineveh S. McKeen (1837–1890)...
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    their capital Nineveh was destroyed in 612 BC. These events gave rise to the Neo-Babylonian Empire, which would dominate the region for much of the following...
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  • year 612 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 142 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 612 BC for this...
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  • Susianians besiege and conquer Nineveh at the Battle of Nineveh. King Sin-shar-ishkun of Assyria is killed in the sack. 612 BC—Ashur-uballit II attempts to...
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  • such as the Fall of Nineveh (612 BCE); it is not only the main topic of the books of Nahum and Jonah, but also described in the Persica of the Greek writer...
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  • French Revolutionary Wars Battle of Nineveh (612 BC) – Fall of Assyria Battle of Nineveh (627) – Byzantine–Sasanian wars Battle of Nipe Bay – 1898 – Spanish-American...
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    Zahiran (category 7th century BC)
    sacked in the Battle of Nineveh (612 BC). The chronicle of Aššur-uballit II, known as Chronicle 3, states of the Battle of Nineveh between Babylonian and...
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    the defeat of the Babylonians. When the Assyrian capital Nineveh was overrun by the Medes, Scythians, Babylonians and their allies in 612 BC, the Assyrians...
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    612 BC Battle of Nineveh (612 BC): Nineveh is destroyed by an alliance of Medians and Babylonians after a mere 3-month siege. 609 BC Battle of Megiddo...
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    right after this battle. When the Assyrian capital, Nineveh, was overrun by the Medes, Scythians, Babylonians and their allies in 612 BC, the Assyrians...
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  • Ashur-uballit II (category 7th-century BC Assyrian kings)
    final ruler of Assyria, ruling from his predecessor Sîn-šar-iškun's death at the Fall of Nineveh in 612 BC to his own defeat at Harran in 609 BC. He was possibly...
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    Cimmerians, and Sagartians. Nineveh fell after a siege and bitter house-to-house fighting in 612 BC during the reign of Sin-shar-ishkun, who was killed...
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    Sinsharishkun (category 612 BC deaths)
    king of Assyria, reigning from the death of his brother and predecessor Aššur-etil-ilāni in 627 BC to his own death at the Fall of Nineveh in 612 BC. Succeeding...
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  • which later took place in 612 BC. Nineveh is compared to Thebes, the Egyptian city that Assyria itself had destroyed in 663 BC. Nahum describes the siege...
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  • Early Periods, Volume 1 (2700-2350 BC), The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, Vol 1, pp. 49-60, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008 ISBN 9780802035868...
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  • Babylonian army and launched a combined offensive against Nineveh in 612 BC. After the Battle of Nineveh, where the Assyrian king Sin-Shar-Ishkun died, Ashur-uballit...
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    Mane (ancient city) (category 7th century BC)
    of Nineveh. During the Battle of Nineveh (612 BC), it was besieged. The chronicle of Aššur-uballit II, known as Chronicle 3, states of the Battle of Nineveh...
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  • of their lands. The city of Arrapha fell in 615 BC, followed by Assur in 614 BC, and finally the famed Nineveh, the newest capital of Assyria, in 612...
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  • start of the calendar is marked by the Battle of Nineveh, a conquest of the Assyrians by the Medes in 612 BC. The names for the months are often derived...
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  • Fall of Ashdod (635 BC) Fall of Assur (614 BC) Battle of Nineveh (612 BC) Fall of Harran (610 BC) Siege of Harran (609 BC) Siege of Jerusalem (597 BC) by...
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    conflagration". The actual Fall of Nineveh occurred in 612 BC after Assyria had been greatly weakened by a bitter series of internal civil wars between rival...
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     705–681 BC), the capital was transferred to Nineveh and under Esarhaddon (r. 681–669 BC) the empire reached its largest extent through the conquest of Egypt...
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    in 612 BC, finally besieging and sacking Nineveh in late 612 BC, killing Sin-shar-ishkun in the process. A new Assyrian king, Ashur-uballit II (612–605...
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    Ashur-etil-ilani (r. 631–627 BC), the new king of Assyria, Sinsharishkun (r. 627–612 BC), immediately faced the revolt of one of his brother's chief generals...
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  • Battle of Nineveh (612 BC) – Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire Battle of Opis – 539 BC – Wars of Cyrus the Great Fall of Babylon – 539 BC – Wars...
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  • Krentz, Peter, The Battle of Marathon (Yale Library of Military History), Yale Univ Press, (2010) p. 98 Grant, p. 23 Herodotus (440 BC). Histories. Arrian...
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    besieged city of Rahilu, but Nabopolassar's army had retreated before a battle could take place. In April or May 612 BC, at the start of Nabopolassar's...
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