Major conflict605 BCE

Battle of Carchemish

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Carchemish

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Nebuchadnezzar II's decisive defeat of Necho II's Egyptian forces, ending Egyptian ambitions in Syria.

Belligerents2

26th Dynasty Egypt
Neo-Babylonian Empire

ON THE MAPNeo-Babylonian Empire

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Carchemish (605 BCE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-carchemish · Sources & methodology