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Sargon conquers Carchemish in 717 BCE. …
Years: 717BCE - 706BCE
Sargon conquers Carchemish in 717 BCE.
The Assyrian king has spent his life in the field, campaigning not only in the west but also in the north, in present eastern Turkey, against the kingdom of Urartu, against whom he undertakes an expedition in 714.
Sargon’s account of this campaign details Urartu’s defeat and incorporation into the imperial system.
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Years: 717BCE - 706BCE
Locations
People
Groups
Topics
- Younger Subboreal Period
- Iron Age, Near and Middle East
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Assyrian Wars of c. 745-609 BCE
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions