The Battle of Opis was the last major military engagement between the Achaemenid Persian Empire and the Neo-Babylonian Empire, which took place in September 539 BC, during the Persian invasion of Mesopotamia. At the time, Babylonia was the last major power in Western Asia that was not yet under Persian control. The battle was fought in or near the strategic riverside city of Opis, located north of the capital city of Babylon in modern-day Iraq, and resulted in a decisive victory for Persia. Shortly afterwards, the Babylonian city of Sippar surrendered to Persian forces, who then supposedly entered Babylon without facing any further resistance. The Persian king Cyrus the Great was subsequently proclaimed as the king of Babylonia and its subject territories, thus ending its independence and incorporating the entirety of the fallen Neo-Babylonian Empire into the greater Achaemenid Empire.
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The BattleofOpis was the last major military engagement between the Achaemenid Persian Empire and the Neo-Babylonian Empire, which took place in September...
ended near Opis. In Nebuchadnezzar II year 40, 565 BC, a cuneiform document was written in Opis by a Judean trader, the first attestation of a Judean trader...
BattleofOpis in 539 BCE, exiled Judeans were permitted by the Persians to return to Judah. According to the biblical Book of Ezra, construction of the...
October 539 BCE, after the BattleofOpis, the Persian army made entry into the capital city of Babylon. With the success of Cyrus' campaign, Babylonia...
have been one of the factors that made Nabonidus return from Tayma. Cyrus's first move was to attack the city ofOpis. The battleofOpis was a decisive...
alternatively been killed already at the battleofOpis, captured and executed, or exiled together with his father. In the Book of Daniel, Belshazzar (Hebrew: בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר...
winter of 540 BC. Just before October 539 BC, Cyrus fought the BattleofOpis in or near the strategic riverside city ofOpis on the Tigris, north of Babylon...
Neo-Babylonian Empire fell to Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, with a military engagement known as the BattleofOpis. Babylon's walls were considered impenetrable...
years. September 25–28? – BattleofOpis: Troops of the Persian Achaemenid Empire under Cyrus the Great decisively defeat those of the Neo-Babylonian Empire...
Xenophon's Cyropaedia. Cyrus's conquest of Babylonia was resisted by Nabonidus and his supporters, as the BattleofOpis demonstrated. Iranologist Pierre Briant...
fifteen centuries until the Achaemenid conquest following the 539 BC BattleofOpis. Sargon was regarded as a model by Mesopotamian kings for some two millennia...
Opis was a king of the Messapians. Opis reigned during the first half of the 5th century BC and participated in the Iapygian-Tarentine Wars. A decade after...
the 6th century BC, Cyrus the Great of neighbouring Persia defeated the Neo-Babylonian Empire at the BattleofOpis and Mesopotamia was subsumed into the...
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Lieutenant Commander. She served in the army of Cyrus the Great. She played an important role in the BattleofOpis in 539 BCE and played an important role...
Neo-Babylonian Empire by defeating Nabonidus at the BattleofOpis Cyrus the Great issues the Edict of Cyrus allowing Babylonian Jews to return from the...
October Cyrus won a battle at Opis, opening the way to Babylon, and on 12 October "Ugbaru, governor of the district of Gutium, and the army of Cyrus entered...
description of the BattleofOpis, in which the Persians decisively defeated Nabonidus's army, massacred the retreating Babylonians and took a great haul of loot...
"the killer of Cyrus", although the actual soldier who slew Cyrus is unknown. 539 BCE – Pantea Arteshbod participate in the BattleofOpis as a Lieutenant...
division of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. It constituted a part of Eber-Nari and was bounded by Arabia to the south, lying along the frontier of the two...
Achaemenid in several battles including the invasion of Greece, the occupation of Sardis, the attack of Medes and at the BattleofOpis. The other theory...
strike, skirmish, siege, sacking, and/or battle (land, naval, and air) that occurred on the territories of what may today be referred to as Iraq; however...
wars 605 BCE Battleof Carchemish 559–530 BCE Campaigns of Cyrus the Great September 25, 539 BCE – September 28, 539 BCE BattleofOpis October 29, 539...
statue of the occupant, a Xanthian king, was positioned on top. The friezes depicted scenes from the life of the king, including hunting and battle scenes...
after the Neo-Babylonian Empire fell to the Achaemenid Persians in the BattleofOpis. The holiday is observed by Iranian nationalists and monarchists to...
calendar, which had 12 months of 30 days each and five epagomenal days, originated between 550 and 330 BC, when Cappadocia was part of the Persian Achaemenid...
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