{"slug": "nineveh", "label": "Nineveh", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineveh", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5680", "qid": "Q5680", "description": "ancient Assyrian city, capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire", "entries": 11, "years": 10, "span": [-2299, 627], "span_label": ["2300 BCE", "627 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 8}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Kuyunjik", "Ninevah", "Ninveh"], "related": [{"slug": "iraq", "label": "Iraq", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "babylonia", "label": "Babylonia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "assyria", "label": "Assyria", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "medes", "label": "Medes", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "sennacherib", "label": "Sennacherib", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "london", "label": "London", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "british-museum", "label": "British Museum", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ancient-egypt", "label": "Ancient Egypt", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thebes-egypt", "label": "Thebes, Egypt", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "achaemenid-empire", "label": "Achaemenid Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bactria", "label": "Bactria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "darius-iii", "label": "Darius III", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -2299, "year_label": "2300 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "c. 2300 BC – 2200 BC: \"Head of a man from Nineveh\" (modern Kuyunjik, Iraq) is made. It is now in the Iraq Museum, Baghdad.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371895841#Events", "title": "23rd century BC", "revid": 1371895841, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": -703, "year_label": "704 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "704 BC—Sennacherib moves the capital of Assyria to Nineveh.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361440079#Events_and_trends", "title": "700s BC (decade)", "revid": 1361440079, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -698, "year_label": "699 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "699 BC—Sennacherib carries out his fifth military campaign in Babylonia, a series of raids against the villages around the foot of Mount Judi, located to the northeast of Nineveh.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1292140577#Events_and_trends", "title": "690s BC", "revid": 1292140577, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -680, "year_label": "681 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "681 BC—King Sennacherib of Assyria is assassinated by one or two of his sons in the temple of the god Ninurta at Kalhu (Northern Mesopotamia) after a 24-year reign in which he defeated the Babylonians, made Nineveh (modern Iraq) a showplace, and diverted the waters of the Tigris River into a huge aqueduct to supply the city with irrigation.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368318910#Events_and_trends", "title": "680s BC", "revid": 1368318910, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -678, "year_label": "679 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Esarhaddon, is mentioned in some texts as having taken a city called Arsa near the River of Egypt, and its king Asuhili was taken back to the Assyrian capital Ninveh.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370523084#679_BC", "title": "670s BC", "revid": 1370523084, "section": "Events and trends › 679 BC"}}, {"year": -667, "year_label": "668 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Nineveh, capital of Assyria becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Thebes in Egypt (estimation).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370510235#Middle_East", "title": "668 BC", "revid": 1370510235, "section": "Events › By Place › Middle East"}}, {"year": -646, "year_label": "647 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Ashurbanipal and his Queen in the Garden, from the palace at Nineveh (modern Kuyunjik, Iraq), is made. It is now at the British Museum, London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370510236#Middle_East", "title": "647 BC", "revid": 1370510236, "section": "Events › Middle East"}}, {"year": -611, "year_label": "612 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Nineveh: An allied army of Babylonians, Medes, Scythians, and Susianians besieges and conquers Nineveh, capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Sinsharishkun, King of Assyria, is killed in the sacking.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370510241#Events", "title": "612 BC", "revid": 1370510241, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": -611, "year_label": "612 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Babylon, capital of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, becomes the largest city in the world, taking the lead from Nineveh.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370510241#Events", "title": "612 BC", "revid": 1370510241, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": -330, "year_label": "331 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 1", "text": "October 1 – Alexander is victorious in the Battle of Gaugamela (near ancient Ninevah) over the Persian King Darius III. Alexander pursues the defeated Persian forces to Arbela, Darius moves his Bactrian cavalry and Greek mercenaries into Media.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1210205718#Macedonia", "title": "331 BC", "revid": 1210205718, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonia"}}, {"year": 627, "year_label": "627 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 12", "text": "December 12 – Battle of Nineveh: Heraclius crosses the Great Zab river and, in a feigned retreat, defeats the Persian army (12,000 men) under Rhahzadh, near the ruins of Nineveh (Iraq). Although wounded, Heraclius refuses to leave the battlefield, and in a final cavalry charge personally kills the Persian general.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1346712156#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "627", "revid": 1346712156, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}]}