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Battle of Nineveh

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Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Nineveh (612 BCE), part of the Babylon's War of Conquest. Chaldeans, Media, Scythians defeated Assyria. Battle followed by a massacre.

Belligerents4

  • Chaldeans
  • Media
  • Scythians
  • Assyria

ON THE MAPNeo-Babylonian EmpireNeo-Assyrian Empire

Conflict graph

PART OFMedo-Babylonian conquest of Assyria

Sources

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

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