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    The sack of Thebes took place in 663 BC in the city of Thebes at the hands of the Neo-Assyrian Empire under king Ashurbanipal, then at war with the Kushite...
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    The Battle of Thebes took place between Alexander the Great and the Greek city-state of Thebes in 335 BC immediately outside of and in the city proper...
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  • Tantamani (category Pharaohs of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt)
    (120 mi) south of Thebes.: 265  The city of Thebes was conquered, "smashed (as if by) a floodstorm" and heavily plundered in the Sack of Thebes. The event is...
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    relics. Modern Thebes is the largest town of the regional unit of Boeotia. In 2011, as a consequence of the Kallikratis reform, Thebes was merged with...
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    including the destruction of Babylon by Sennacherib in 689 BC and the Sack of Thebes by Ashurbanipal in 663/4 BC. At the other extreme, a few American scholars...
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    of Egypt under Psamtik I c. 656 BC, itself a direct consequence of the Sack of Thebes by the Assyrians in 663 BC. Canal construction from the Nile to...
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    in 667 BCE, who afterwards fled to Thebes. Ashurbanipal marched the Assyrian army as far south as Thebes, and sacked numerous revolting cities: In my first...
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    descriptions of Alexander's sack of Thebes in 335 and the battle of the Granicus in summer 334 BC. Book 2 The majority of this book is dominated by three...
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  • of Nihriya Battle of Nineveh (612 BC) Battle of Qarqar Sennacherib's campaign in the Levant Battle of Susa Fall of Tarbisu Sack of Thebes Battle of Ulai...
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    against Thebes were seven champions in Greek mythology who made war on Thebes. They were chosen by Adrastus, the king of Argos, to be the captains of an Argive...
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