Regional653 BCE

Battle of Nineveh

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
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Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Nineveh (653 BCE), part of the Assyrian Wars. Media defeated Scythians, Assyria.

Belligerents3

Media
Scythians
Assyria

ON THE MAPNeo-Assyrian Empire

Conflict graph

PART OFWars of the Neo-Assyrian Empire

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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