An Overview of Military Confrontations between of the Assyrian Army against the Medes in the 7th centuries BCE
An Overview of Military Confrontations between of the Assyrian Army against the Medes in the 7th centuries BCE

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the military confrontation between Neo-Assyrian kingdom and the Median polities in the 7th century BCE. At the beginning the outline of the history of wars between the Medes and Assyria from the 9th century onwards is presented which is followed by the brief description of the Assyrian forces of the era and detailed examination of the events until the fall of the Neo-Assyrian empire. In conclusions an attempt to reconstruct possible principles of the Median warfare was made.

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