Significant626 BCE – 609 BCE · 17 years

Medo-Babylonian conquest of Assyria

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Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Babylonian and Median campaigns that destroyed the Neo-Assyrian Empire, including the fall of Nineveh.

Belligerents5

Media
Assyria
Babylon
Chaldeans
Scythians

ON THE MAPNeo-Assyrian EmpireNeo-Babylonian Empire

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 2

Battle of Nineveh612 BCE
Battle of Harran610 BCE

Sources

Derived from HCED child battles; see Wikipedia
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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