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Babylon

Nabopolassar assaulted and successfully seized the cities of Babylon and Nippur

626 BC
Babylon (Present-Day Iraq)

Early in the reign of the Neo-Assyrian king Sinsharishkun, the southern general Nabopolassar used ongoing political instability in Assyria, caused by an earlier brief civil war between Sinsharishkun and the general Sin-shumu-lishir, to revolt. In 626 BC, Nabopolassar assaulted and successfully seized the cities of Babylon and Nippur.


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