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Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex
The Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex, or Oxus Civilization, is a Bronze Age culture of oasis settlements in Turkmenistan and Afghanistan, dating from about 2250 to 1500 BC.
Bagdatti
Bagdatti was a governor of the Mannaean province of Uishdish, brother of the Mannean king Ullusunu, who took part in the killing of Aza and was captured by Sargon II in 716 BC.
Barattarna
Barattarna, also written Parattarna, was a king of Mitanni, the Hurrian state of Upper Mesopotamia, who flourished around 1500 BC and is known only from foreign texts.
Bartatua
Bartatua, also known as Protothyes, was a Scythian king titled King of the Scythians in Assyrian records, known chiefly for asking Esarhaddon for a daughter in marriage around 672 BCE.
Battle of Arpad (743 BC)
The Battle of Arpad was a 743 BC battle in which Tiglath-pileser III of Assyria crushed Sarduri II of Urartu and his Syrian allies, ending Urartu's influence in Syria.
Battle of Arzashkun
The Battle of Arzashkun was a battle of about 856 BC in which Shalmaneser III of Assyria captured and destroyed Arzashku, the royal city of Urartu's ruler Arame.
Battle of Ganuvara
The Battle of Ganuvara, also spelled Kannuwara, was a battle fought around the early 1310s BC, where a Hittite army under Nuvanza defeated an invading Hayasa-Azzi army.
Battle of Pteria
The Battle of Pteria was fought around 547 BC between Croesus, king of Lydia, and Cyrus II of Persia at Pteria in Cappadocia, ending in a draw by Herodotus' account.
Battle of Sugunia
The Battle of Sugunia was the capture of Sugunia, royal city of Arame of Urartu, by the Assyrian army of Shalmaneser III in 858 BC, recorded in the Kurkh Monolith annals.
Battle of Ulai River
The Battle of Ulai River, also called the Battle of Til-Tuba, was fought in 653 BC, when Ashurbanipal of Assyria defeated and beheaded the Elamite king Teumman.
Battles of Alashiya
The Battles of Alashiya were Hittite campaigns against Cyprus, identified with Alašiya, in 1220–1200 BC under Tudhaliya IV and Suppiluliuma II, recorded on tablet KBo XII 38 found at Hattusa.
Bente-Shina
Bentešina, also written Benteshina, was king of Amurru in Syria in the 13th century BC, a Hittite vassal who was exiled for rebellion and later restored by Hattusili III.
Bit-Hamban
Bit-Hamban, also Bīt Ḫamban or Bīt Habban, was a district and later Assyrian province in the central Zagros, attested from after 1157 BC to 612 BC.
Bit-Iakin
Bit-Iakin, more commonly written Bit-Yakin, was a Chaldean tribal polity in the marshlands of southern Babylonia, an adversary of Assyria in the 8th century BC.
Boğazköy archive
The Boğazköy archive, also called the Hattusa archive, is the corpus of some 25,000 to 35,000 cuneiform tablets from Ḫattuša, capital of the Hittite kingdom, about 1650–1180 BC.
Bronze Tablet
The Bronze Tablet is a Hittite bronze treaty tablet recording the treaty between King Tudhaliya IV and his cousin Kurunta of Tarhuntassa, found at Hattusa in 1986.
Bryges
The Bryges, also called Briges or Brygi, were a Thracian people of the southern Balkans whose heartland lay in Macedonia around Mount Bermius, regarded as the Phrygians' European kinsmen.
Building of the citadel of Van (Tushpa)
The building of the citadel of Van (Tushpa) was the construction begun by Urartian king Sarduri I around 840-830 BC on a rock by Lake Van.
Bularchus
Bularchus (Greek Boularchos) is a painter of Lydia known only from Pliny, who says King Candaules paid its weight in gold for his battle picture.
Campaign of Argishti I against Diauehi
The campaign of Argishti I against Diauehi was a Urartian military expedition of 785 BC in which King Argishti I burned Diauehi's royal city and imposed heavy tribute.
Campaigns of Ishpuini against the Mannaeans
The campaigns of Ishpuini against the Mannaeans were Urartian expeditions led by king Ishpuini and his son Menua into the Lake Urmia region in the late 9th century BC.
Campaigns of Shalmaneser III against Urartu
A series of Assyrian military expeditions by Shalmaneser III against the early kingdom of Urartu and its kings Aramu and Sarduri I, from 859 to 824 BC.
Campaigns of Tudhaliya I/II against Arzawa
The campaigns of Tudhaliya I/II against Arzawa were Hittite campaigns in western Anatolia around 1430 BC, in which King Tudhaliya I/II defeated the Assuwa league of twenty-two states.
Candaules
Candaules (Κανδαύλης), also called Myrsilus, was the last Heracleid king of Lydia, reigning at Sardis until his bodyguard Gyges murdered him and founded the Mermnad dynasty, a story told by Herodotus.
Carian inscriptions
The Carian inscriptions record Carian, an extinct Anatolian Indo-European language of southwest Anatolia, written from the 7th to 4th centuries BC, mostly by mercenaries in Egypt.
Carians
The Carians were the ancient people of Caria in south-west Anatolia, south of the Maeander River, speaking Carian, an extinct Anatolian Indo-European language, attested from about 1800 BC.
Caucones
The Caucones (Kaukones) were a shadowy ancient people whom Homer lists among Troy's allies, placed by later Greek tradition in Paphlagonia and the western Peloponnese.
Çiftlik stele
The Çiftlik stele is a Neo-Hittite stone monument from Ovaçiftlikköy in Kayseri Province, Turkey, bearing a mid-8th-century BC Hieroglyphic Luwian inscription by a servant of the Tabalian ruler Tuwati.
Cimmerian invasion of Anatolia
The Cimmerian invasion of Anatolia was a series of incursions by nomadic Cimmerians, driven south by the Scythians, who destroyed Phrygia and sacked Sardis before their defeat by Lydia.
Cimmerian invasion of Phrygia
The Cimmerian invasion of Phrygia was the nomadic Cimmerian attack on the Iron Age kingdom of Midas in central Anatolia, traditionally dated about 700–675 BC.