byblos

If you are looking for the page with the statistics about this nation you can find it here: All Statistics

The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

Byblos

Byblos (Assyria)

Byblos (Neo-Babylonian Empire)

Establishment

January 1229 BC: The Phoenician city-state of Byblos is established. The Phoenicians emerged as a distinct and organized civilization in 1230 BC after the Late Bronze Age collapse had severely weakened the Egyptian and Hittits civilizations.

Chronology

Interactive Chronologies with maps are available in the section Changes Navigation

1. Campaigns of Tiglath-Pileser I

Military campaigns of Assyrian King Tiglath-Pileser I.

1.1.Campaigns of Tiglath-Pileser I in Syria

Military Campaigns of Assyrian King Tiglath-Pileser I in Syria.

January 1076 BC: The Assyrian Empire campaigned against the Arameans 28 times during the reign of Tiglath-Pileser I from 1115 to 1077 BC. The control of the high road to the Mediterranean was secured by the possession of the Hittite town of Pitru at the junction between the Euphrates and Sajur. Tiglath-Pileser I also conquered Gubal (Byblos), Sidon, and finally Arvad.

2. Campaigns of Shalmaneser III

Military campaigns of Assyrian king Shalmaneser III.

January 840 BC: The Assyrian conquest of Phoenicia began with King Shalmaneser III, who rose to power in 858 BC and began a series of campaigns against neighboring states. The Phoenician city-states fell under his rule, forced to pay heavy tribute in money.

3. Campaigns of Cyaxares

Military campaign of Median king Cyaxares.

3.1.Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire

Was a war fought between Media and Babylon against the Neo-Assyrian Empire that led to the fall of the latter.

3.1.1.Necho´s first campaign in syria

Was a military campaign by Egyptian Pharaoh Necho II that invaded the Levant to help the Assyrian in their war against Media and Babylon.

June 609 BC: Egyptian Pharaoh Necho led a sizable force to help the Assyrians. He soon captured Kadesh on the Orontes and moved forward, joining forces with Assyrian ruler Ashur-uballit and together they crossed the Euphrates and laid siege to Harran. Although Necho became the first pharaoh to cross the Euphrates since Thutmose III, he failed to capture Harran, and retreated back to northern Syria.

January 608 BC: Egyptian Pharaoh Necho led a sizable force to help the Assyrians. He soon captured Kadesh on the Orontes and moved forward, joining forces with Assyrian ruler Ashur-uballit and together they crossed the Euphrates and laid siege to Harran. Although Necho became the first pharaoh to cross the Euphrates since Thutmose III, he failed to capture Harran, and retreated back to northern Syria.

4. Wars of Cyrus the Great

Were a series of expansionistic military campaigns by the first Achaemenid ruler Cyrus the Great.

October 539 BC: Cyrus the Great, king and founder of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, took Babylon.

5. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

January 1055 BC: By the end of Eriba-Adad II's reign many areas of Syria and Phoenicia-Canaan, previously under firm Assyrian control, were eventually lost by the Assyrian Empire.

January 608 BC: Byblos, a vassal of Assyria, came under the control of the Neo-Babylonian Empire after the Babylonians rebelled against the collapsing Assyrian Empire.