Nineveh: All Data
Nineveh is a city in Iraq. This page covers its chronology of mentions across 5,500 years of history, including capitals, battles, events and subdivisions. Part of Phersu Atlas.
1. Lists and Timelines
Nineveh: Chronology of Mentions
Note: For polities of antiquity, the listed capital or subdivision capital may also represent one or several of the most important cities of the region.
2499 BC
Mentioned in Event: Lugal-Anne-Mundu's Campaign on Ur
2459 BC
Mentioned in Event: Lugal-Anne-Mundu's Campaign on Ur
2024 BC
Mentioned in Event: Campaigns of Puzur-Ashur I
1720 BC
Mentioned in Event: Campaigns of Shamshi-Adad I
1391 BC
Mentioned in Event: Campaigns of Eriba-Adad I
705 BC
Capital of Assyrian Empire
670 BC
Subdivision Capital of the Province of Nineveh, part of Assyrian Empire
613 BC
Mentioned in Event: Campaigns of Cyaxares
611 BC
Mentioned in: Siege of Nineveh, part of Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire
549 BC
Mentioned in Event: Persian Revolt
331 BC
Mentioned in Event: Conquest of the Achaemenid Empire
315 BC
Mentioned in Event: Consolidation of the borders after the Second War of the Diadochi
311 BC
Mentioned in Event: Babylonian War
221 BC
Mentioned in Event: Secession of Molon
220 BC
Mentioned in Event: Defeat of Molon
129 BC
Mentioned in Event: Wars of Antiochus VII
128 BC
Mentioned in Event: Wars of Antiochus VII
117 AD
Mentioned in Event: Trajan's Parthian Campaign
119 AD
Mentioned in Event: Trajan's Parthian Campaign
167 AD
Mentioned in Event: Roman-Parthian War of 161-166
168 AD
Mentioned in Event: Roman-Parthian War of 161-166
217 AD
Mentioned in Event: Military Campaigns in Parthia by Caracalla
233 AD
Mentioned in Event: Sasanid Campaign of Alexander Severus
627 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Nineveh, part of Byzantine-Sasanian War of 572-591