Battle of Arrapha

Rise of Neo-Assyria
Campaigns of Ashurnasirpal II (Suru)
Campaigns of Shalmaneser III (Qarqar)
Campaigns of Shamshi-Adad V (Dur-Papsukkal)
Campaigns of Tiglath Pileser III (Gezer)
War with Urartu
Campaigns of Sargon II
Campaigns of Sennacherib (Sennacherib's campaign in Judah, Lachish, Jerusalem, Diyala River, Halule, 1st Babylon)
Campaigns of Esarhaddon
Conquest of Elam
Campaigns of Ashurbanipal (Ulai, Susa, Ashdod)
2nd Babylon
Arrapha
Assur
Nineveh
Harran

Battle of Arrapha took place in 616 BC between the Assyrian forces and the Babylonians.^[1] Babylonian king Nabopolassar succeeded by driving the Assyrians back to the Little Zab, in doing so capturing many Assyrian prisoners, horses, and chariots.^[2]

Notes

↑ Reallexikon der Assyriologie, By Bruno Meissner, Erich Ebeling, Ernst Weidner, Wolfram von Soden, Dietz Otto Edzard. Page 14
↑ The Ancient Near East: C.3000-330 B.C., By Amélie Kuhrt, page 544

Coordinates: 35°28′0″N 44°19′0″E / 35.46667°N 44.31667°E / 35.46667; 44.31667

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