Assyrian oppression of Phoenicia continues unabated, and …
Years: 765BCE - 622BCE
Assyrian oppression of Phoenicia continues unabated, and Tyre rebels again, this time against Sargon II (722-05 BCE), who successfully besieges the city in 721 BCE and punishes its population.
Locations
People
Groups
- Semites
- Phoenicia
- Phoenicians
- Tyre, Kingdom of (Phoenicia)
- Assyria, (New) Kingdom of (Neo-Assyrian Empire)
- Assyrian people
- Carthage, Kingdom of
Topics
- Greek Dark Ages
- Phoenician colonization
- Iron Age, Near and Middle East
- Assyrian Wars of c. 909-c. 746 BCE
