Fall of Babylon (539 BC)

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_event
gptkbp:aftermath Cyrus issued decree allowing exiled peoples to return
Cyrus the Great entered Babylon
gptkbp:category gptkb:Achaemenid_Empire
Ancient history
Babylonian history
gptkbp:combatant gptkb:Achaemenid_Empire
gptkb:Neo-Babylonian_Empire
gptkbp:commander gptkb:Cyrus_the_Great
gptkb:Nabonidus
gptkbp:date 539 BC
gptkbp:depicts gptkb:Herodotus'_Histories
gptkb:Xenophon's_Cyropaedia
The Bible (Book of Daniel, Book of Isaiah, Book of Jeremiah)
gptkbp:followedBy Achaemenid rule in Babylon
gptkbp:hasArtifact gptkb:Cyrus_Cylinder
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Fall of Babylon (539 BC)
gptkbp:location gptkb:Babylon
gptkbp:method gptkb:castle
capture without major destruction
gptkbp:precededBy Reign of Nabonidus
gptkbp:relatedEvent Persian conquest of Mesopotamia
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Gobryas
gptkbp:result gptkb:Achaemenid_conquest_of_Babylon
gptkbp:significance End of Neo-Babylonian Empire
Babylon incorporated into Achaemenid Empire
gptkbp:source gptkb:Cyrus_Cylinder
gptkb:Nabonidus_Chronicle
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:King
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4