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Battle of Carchemish
The Battle of Carchemish, also called the Battle of Karkemish, was fought in 605 BC at Carchemish on the Euphrates, where Babylon under crown prince Nebuchadnezzar II destroyed an Egyptian army under Pharaoh Necho II.
Battle of Dhat Irq
The Battle of Dhat Irq was a desert plundering raid launched by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylonia against Arab tribes in 599/598 BC, recorded in the Babylonian Chronicle.
Battle of Kimuhu
The Battle of Kimuhu was a two-stage Babylonian-Egyptian engagement on the Euphrates in 607–606 BC: Nabopolassar captured the fortified town, and Egypt retook it, slaying his garrison.
Battle of Opis
The Battle of Opis, fought on the Tigris in October 539 BC, was the decisive Persian victory of Cyrus the Great over Nabonidus's Babylonian army, leading to Babylon's fall.
Building of the Etemenanki ziggurat
The building of the Etemenanki ziggurat was the reconstruction of the ziggurat of Marduk at Babylon, begun by Nabopolassar and completed by Nebuchadnezzar II around 590 BC.
Cyrus's entry into Babylon
Cyrus's entry into Babylon was the entry of the Persian king Cyrus II into Babylon on 29 October 539 BC, after his troops took the city without battle.
Elamite intervention in Babylonia
The Elamite intervention in Babylonia was a series of Elamite military and political involvements in southern Mesopotamia during the 650s BC, ending with Assurbanipal's sack of Susa in 646 BC.
Fall of Assyria
The Fall of Assyria, or Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire, was the war of 626–609 BC in which Babylon and the Medes destroyed the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
Merodach-Baladan's alliance with Elam
Merodach-Baladan's alliance with Elam, also called Marduk-apla-iddina II's alliance with Elam, was the Babylonian king's cooperation with Elam against Assyria from about 721 to 703 BC.
Nabonidus' conquest of Tayma
Nabonidus' conquest of Tayma was the capture of the oasis of Tayma in northwest Arabia by Babylonian forces under King Nabonidus in 553/552 BC, opening his Arabian campaigns.
Nabonidus' decade at Tayma
Nabonidus' decade at Tayma was the roughly ten-year residence of Nabonidus, the last Neo-Babylonian king, at the north Arabian oasis of Tayma, during which Belshazzar governed Babylon.
Nabonidus's religious reform
Nabonidus's religious reform, also called the Elevation of Sin, was the policy of Nabonidus, king of Babylon 556–539 BC, promoting the moon god Sîn above Marduk.
Nabonidus's restoration of the Sin temple at Harran
Nabonidus's restoration of the Sin temple at Harran was the rebuilding of the Ehulhul, temple of the moon god Sîn, destroyed in 610 BC and rebuilt from around 552 BC.
Nebuchadnezzar II's campaign against Egypt (568/567 BC)
Nebuchadnezzar II's campaign against Egypt was a Babylonian invasion in 568/567 BC, in Nebuchadnezzar's thirty-seventh year, against pharaoh Amasis, known from tablet BM 33041; Egypt remained independent.
Nebuchadnezzar II's campaigns in the Levant
Nebuchadnezzar II's campaigns in the Levant, also called the Babylonian campaigns in Syria-Palestine, were Babylonian operations from about 605 to 582 BC that replaced Egyptian influence with Babylonian domination.
Phoenicia under Babylonian rule
Phoenicia under Babylonian rule was the period when Nebuchadnezzar II's Neo-Babylonian Empire governed the Phoenician coastal cities through vassal kings and tribute, ending with the Persian conquest of 539 BC.
Rebuilding of the Ishtar Gate
The rebuilding of the Ishtar Gate was Nebuchadnezzar II's reconstruction of Babylon's main gateway with blue glazed bricks showing dragons, bulls, and lions, now displayed in Berlin.
Revolt of Babylon (626 BC)
The Revolt of Babylon in 626 BC was the Babylonian uprising against Assyrian rule that brought Nabopolassar to the throne in Babylon and, with the Medes, ended the Neo-Assyrian Empire at Nineveh in 612 BC.
Revolt of Nabopolassar against Assyria
The Revolt of Nabopolassar against Assyria was the Babylonian uprising from the 620s BC in which Nabopolassar seized the throne of Babylon, founding the Neo-Babylonian dynasty.
Revolt of Shamash-shum-ukin
The Revolt of Shamash-shum-ukin was a civil war of 652 to 648 BC in which Šamaš-šuma-ukīn, king of Babylon, rose against his brother Ashurbanipal of Assyria.
Siege of Harran
The siege of Harran (609 BC) was the final attempt by the last Assyrian king, Ashur-uballit II, supported by Egyptian forces under Necho II, to retake Harran.
Siege of Tyre (586–573 BC)
The siege of Tyre (586–573 BC) was Nebuchadnezzar II's Babylonian siege of the island city of Tyre, which ended in a negotiated peace without capture.
Suspension of the Akitu festival
The suspension of the Akitu festival was the failure of Babylonian king Nabonidus to celebrate the New Year festival of Marduk while residing at Tayma in Arabia.