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Campaign of Tefnakht against the Delta and Middle Egypt

Tefnakht's campaign against the Delta and Middle Egypt was the late eighth-century BC expansion of Tefnakht of Sais, which besieged Herakleopolis and provoked Piye's Nubian invasion.

Campaign of Tiglath-Pileser III to Hatti (738 BC)

The campaign of Tiglath-Pileser III to Hatti in 738 BC was an Assyrian operation against the Syro-Hittite and Aramean states, defeating Hamat and annexing Unqi.

Campaign of Tiglath-pileser III to Unqi

The campaign of Tiglath-pileser III to Unqi, also called the Pattina campaign, was a 738 BC Assyrian conquest that ended the Neo-Hittite kingdom of Unqi in north Syria.

Campaign of Weni against the Sand-Dwellers

The Campaign of Weni against the Sand-Dwellers was a series of five Egyptian military expeditions under King Pepi I, led by the official Weni the Elder.

Campaigns of Ahmose I in Nubia

The campaigns of Ahmose I in Nubia were military operations of Egypt's first 18th Dynasty king, c. 1539-1514 BC, that restored Egyptian rule over Lower Nubia.

Campaigns of Amenemhat II

The campaigns of Amenemhat II were Egyptian military and trading expeditions to the Levant, Nubia, Sinai, and Punt, recorded in an annal inscription from Memphis.

Campaigns of Amenhotep II in Syria-Palestine

The campaigns of Amenhotep II in Syria-Palestine were Egyptian expeditions in regnal Years 7 and 9, suppressing rebellion in Syria and Palestine through conquest and mass deportation.

Campaigns of Ashur-bel-kala against the Arameans

The campaigns of Ashur-bel-kala against the Arameans were Assyrian military operations under King Ashur-bel-kala (reigned 1073–1056 BC) against Aramean groups in the Khabur and upper Euphrates region.

Campaigns of Harsiotef

The Campaigns of Harsiotef are nine military operations of a 4th-century BC king of Kush, recorded on his Victory Stela inscribed at Gebel Barkal and now kept in Cairo.

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 Karib'il Watar

The campaigns of Karib'il Watar, mukarrib of Saba' (c. 685–650 BC), were eight military campaigns recorded in his Sirwah victory inscription RES 3945, reaching from Awsan to Najran.

Campaigns of Mentuhotep II against the Herakleopolitans

The campaigns of Mentuhotep II against the Herakleopolitans were the civil war in which the Theban king defeated the Tenth Dynasty and reunified Egypt around 2040 BC.

Campaigns of Mentuhotep II in Nubia

The campaigns of Mentuhotep II in Nubia were Egyptian expeditions into Lower Nubia, called Wawat, under Mentuhotep II, the Theban king who reunified Egypt after the First Intermediate Period.

Campaigns of Rimush against Magan and Elam

The campaigns of Rimush against Magan and Elam were the eastern military expeditions of Rimush, second king of the Akkadian Empire, who reigned from 2278 to 2270 BC.

Campaigns of Senusret I in Nubia

The campaigns of Senusret I in Nubia were early Twelfth Dynasty Egyptian expeditions into Lower Nubia, culminating in a year-18 campaign that reached the Second Cataract.

Campaigns of Senusret III in Nubia

The campaigns of Senusret III in Nubia were Egyptian expeditions of the later nineteenth century BC that fixed a fortified border at Semna, past the Second Cataract.

Campaigns of Seti I in Canaan and Syria

Seti I of Egypt's Nineteenth Dynasty campaigned in Canaan and Syria early in his reign, from about 1290 BCE, fighting the Shasu and capturing Kadesh.

Campaigns of Shalmaneser I against Hanigalbat

The campaigns of Shalmaneser I against Hanigalbat were the Assyrian king's wars that ended Hanigalbat's independence, annexing it to Assyria in the 13th 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 Shalmaneser III in Syria

The campaigns of Shalmaneser III in Syria were repeated Assyrian expeditions into the Levant, including four battles of Qarqar against coalitions led by Damascus and Hamath.

Campaigns of Shamshi-Adad I against the Turukku

The campaigns of Shamshi-Adad I against the Turukku were wars between Shamshi-Adad I and the Turukkean kingdoms of the Zagros foothills, ending in a marriage-alliance peace.

Campaigns of Thutmose I in Nubia and Syria

The campaigns of Thutmose I in Nubia and Syria were Egyptian expeditions of the Eighteenth Dynasty king (ca. 1504–1492 BC), reaching Kurgus in Nubia and the Euphrates.

Campaigns of Thutmose III in the Levant

Roughly seventeen campaigns led by Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose III into Canaan and Syria, beginning with the siege of Megiddo around 1457 BC and culminating in a crossing of the Euphrates against Mitanni.

Campaigns of Tiglath-pileser III against Urartu

The campaigns of Tiglath-pileser III against Urartu were Assyrian offensives of the 740s and 730s BC in which Tiglath-pileser III defeated Sarduri II and broke Urartu's power in Syria.

Campaigns of Tiglath-pileser III to Syria and Palestine

The campaigns of Tiglath-pileser III to Syria and Palestine (734–732 BC) were three Assyrian expeditions that ended with Damascus annexed and Israel reduced under King Hoshea.

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.

Canaan during the Hyksos period

Canaan during the Hyksos period (c. 1700–1550 BC) was a region of Canaanite city-states in close contact with, but not ruled by, the Hyksos kingdom of Egypt.

Canaanean blade

Canaanean blades, also called Canaanite blades, are large standardized flint blades made by pressure flaking, used mainly as sickle and threshing-sledge inserts across the Bronze Age Near East.

Canaanite and Aramaic seal inscriptions

Canaanite and Aramaic seal inscriptions are short legends carved on Iron Age Levant stamp seals, key evidence for personal names, society, and early alphabetic writing.

Canaanites

The Canaanites were the Northwest Semitic inhabitants of Canaan, in Palestine and western Syria, during the Bronze Age, organized in independent city-states under Egyptian rule before 1200 BC.