Filters:
Group: Anglicans (Episcopal Church of England)
People: José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia
Topic: Early Bronze Age III (Near and Middle East)
Location: Lilybaeum > Marsala Sicilia Italy

The long-reigning Psamtik I, founder of the …

Years: 633BCE - 622BCE

The long-reigning Psamtik I, founder of the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty and pharaoh of Egypt from 663, besieges Ashdod for twenty-nine years according to the Greek historian Herodotus.

Together with the other Philistine cities, it becomes an Egyptian vassal during the second half of the sixth century.