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Neo-Babylonian Wars

626–539 BC Mesopotamia Status: ended Casualties: Unknown — Nineveh erased

Nabopolassar broke free of Assyria; Cyaxares of Media joined him. In 612 BC they took Nineveh and burned it. Nebuchadnezzar II completed the empire, crushing Egypt at Carchemish (605 BC) and taking Jerusalem in 586. Fell to Cyrus of Persia in 539.

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Belligerents

  • Babylon (Nabopolassar, Nebuchadnezzar II)
  • Assyria
  • Media
  • Egypt

Casualties

Unknown — Nineveh erased

From World at War, an interactive atlas by Jairus Pereira. Figures are approximate, drawn from Wikipedia, UCDP, ACLED and academic sources — a design artefact, not an authoritative register. Contact.