Fall of Nineveh (612 BCE)

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Fall_of_Nineveh_(612_BCE)

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:historical_event
gptkbp:aftermath	gptkb:Rise_of_the_Median_Empire gptkb:Rise_of_the_Neo-Babylonian_Empire
gptkbp:category	Ancient Mesopotamian history Battles involving the Assyrian Empire
gptkbp:combatant	gptkb:Scythians gptkb:Cimmerians gptkb:Babylonian_Empire gptkb:Medes gptkb:Neo-Assyrian_Empire
gptkbp:commander	gptkb:Sin-shar-ishkun gptkb:Cyaxares gptkb:Nabopolassar
gptkbp:date	612 BCE
gptkbp:destroyed_city	gptkb:Nineveh
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Fall of Nineveh (612 BCE)
gptkbp:legacy	Inspired later literature and prophecy (e.g., Book of Nahum)
gptkbp:location	gptkb:Nineveh
gptkbp:precededBy	gptkb:Siege_of_Nineveh
gptkbp:relatedEvent	gptkb:Battle_of_Carchemish
gptkbp:result	gptkb:Destruction_of_Nineveh End of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
gptkbp:significance	Marked the collapse of Assyrian dominance in Mesopotamia
gptkbp:source	gptkb:Babylonian_Chronicles Greek historians (Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus)
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Assyrian
gptkbp:bfsLayer	5