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Siaspiqa
Siaspiqa, also written Siaspiqo, was a king of Kush of the Napatan period, reigning from 487 to 468 BC and buried in pyramid 4 at Nuri.
Siatum
Siatum was an ancient Egyptian prince of the Eighteenth Dynasty, probably a son of Pharaoh Thutmose IV, attested on a Vienna relief and his daughter's mummy-label.
Sicilian Wars
The Sicilian Wars were intermittent conflicts between Carthage and the Greek states of Sicily, above all Syracuse, from before 480 BC until Rome conquered the island in 241 BC.
Sidqa (king of Ashkelon)
Sidqa, also written Ṣidqia or Sidqia, was a Philistine king of Ashkelon who joined the anti-Assyrian coalition of 701 BC and was deported to Assyria by Sennacherib.
Siege of Acragas (406 BC)
The Siege of Acragas (406 BC) was the capture and destruction of the wealthy Greek city of Akragas (Agrigentum) in Sicily by a Carthaginian army after an eight-month siege.
Siege of Arpad (743–740 BC)
The Siege of Arpad (743–740 BC) was the campaign by which Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III conquered Arpad, capital of the Aramean kingdom Bît-Aguši in northern Syria, after a battle with Urartu in 743 BC.
Siege of Ashdod
The siege of Ashdod was an attack by the Egyptian king Psammetichus I on the Philistine city of Ashdod, which Herodotus reports lasted twenty-nine years before the city fell.
Siege of Aspis
The Siege of Aspis, also called the Capture of Clupea, was the Roman capture in 256 BC of the Carthaginian town of Aspis, modern Kelibia in Tunisia, during the First Punic War.
Siege of Azekah
The siege of Azekah was the capture of the Judahite fortress city of Azekah by Sennacherib's Assyrian army in 701 BC, during his campaign against Hezekiah.
Siege of Babylon (650–648 BC)
The siege of Babylon (650–648 BC) was the two-year Assyrian siege of rebel-held Babylon, which fell to famine, ending the civil war between Ashurbanipal and his brother Shamash-shum-ukin.
Siege of Babylon (689 BC)
The siege of Babylon in 689 BC was the capture and destruction of the city by the Assyrian king Sennacherib, ending the revolt of the pretender Mushezib-Marduk.
Siege of Capua
The Siege of Capua (211 BC) was a Roman siege of Capua in Campania, which had defected to Hannibal in 216 BC and fell in 211 BC.
Siege of Carchemish
The siege of Carchemish was the capture of Carchemish on the Euphrates by the Hittite Great King Šuppiluliuma I around 1330 BC, ending Mitanni rule.
Siege of Carthage (Third Punic War)
The siege of Carthage, also called the Fall of Carthage, was the final operation of the Third Punic War, ending with Rome's destruction of the city in 146 BC.
Siege of Cirta (112 BC)
The siege of Cirta was Jugurtha's 112 BC capture of the Numidian capital, where he tortured his co-ruler Adherbal to death, starting the Jugurthine War.
Siege of Cirta (203 BC)
The Siege of Cirta in 203 BC was the capture of Syphax's Numidian capital by Masinissa and the Roman commander Gaius Laelius, ending with Syphax a prisoner.
Siege of Damascus (841 BC)
The siege of Damascus in 841 BC was Shalmaneser III of Assyria's campaign against Hazael of Aram-Damascus, who was defeated in battle but not deposed.
Siege of Dapur
The siege of Dapur was an attack by Ramesses II on a fortified town in north Syria in his regnal Year 8, after the Battle of Kadesh.
Siege of Drepana
The Siege of Drepana was the Roman blockade of Carthage's fortress and naval base at Drepana, western Sicily, during the final years of the First Punic War.
Siege of Ekron
The siege of Ekron in 701 BC was Sennacherib of Assyria's suppression of a revolt in the Philistine city of Ekron, whose people had deposed King Padi.
Siege of Eryx (278 BC)
The siege of Eryx was the storming of the Carthaginian-held fortress of Eryx in western Sicily by Pyrrhus of Epirus in 278/277 BC, who led the assault in person.
Siege of Gath by Hazael
Hazael's capture of Gath was the siege and capture of the Philistine city of Gath by Hazael, king of Aram-Damascus, around 830 BCE, recorded in 2 Kings 12:17-19.
Siege of Hadrach
The Siege of Hadrach is the conventional name for the Assyrian campaigns of Adad-nirari III against Hadrach, or Hatarikka, in northern Syria in the early eighth century BC.
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 Hazrak
The Siege of Hazrak was the blockade of Hazrak, likely Tell Afis near Aleppo, by a coalition under Bar-Hadad of Aram against Zakkur of Hamath around 790-780 BCE.
Siege of Himera (409 BC)
The siege of Himera in 409 BC was the Carthaginian assault under Hannibal Mago that razed the Greek city of Himera on Sicily's north coast, avenging a defeat of 480 BC.
Siege of Jerusalem (597 BC)
The siege of Jerusalem in 597 BC was Nebuchadnezzar II's capture of the city of Judah, ending with King Jehoiachin's deportation to Babylon and Zedekiah installed as vassal.
Siege of Joppa
The Siege of Joppa, known in Egyptian literature as The Taking of Joppa, was the capture of rebellious Joppa (Jaffa) by general Djehuty under Thutmose III around 1460 BC.
Siege of Lachish
The siege of Lachish was an Assyrian assault in 701 BC by King Sennacherib on Lachish, Judah's second most important city, which fell while Jerusalem survived.
Siege of Lilybaeum (250–241 BC)
The siege of Lilybaeum (250–241 BC) was Rome's land and sea investment of Carthage's main remaining base in Sicily during the First Punic War; the city never fell to assault.