Nippur: All Data
Nippur 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
Nippur: 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.
2899 BC
Capital of Nippur
2499 BC
Mentioned in Event: Lugal-Anne-Mundu's Campaign on Ur
2459 BC
Mentioned in Event: Lugal-Anne-Mundu's Campaign on Ur
2449 BC
Mentioned in Event: Campaigns of Enshakushanna
2399 BC
Mentioned in Event: Campaigns of Eannatum
2357 BC
Mentioned in Event: Campaigns of Lugal-zage-si
2349 BC
Mentioned in Event: Campaigns of Lugal-zage-si
1939 BC
Mentioned in Event: Fall of the Neo-Sumerian Empire
1819 BC
Mentioned in Event: Larsa's conquest of Isin
1762 BC
Mentioned in Event: Elamite attack on Babylon
1762 BC
Mentioned in Event: Hammurabi's Conquest on Larsa
1224 BC
Mentioned in Event: Assyrian conquest of Babylonia
1206 BC
Mentioned in Event: Independance of Babylon
823 BC
Mentioned in Event: Campaigns of Shalmaneser III
693 BC
Mentioned in: Battle of Diyala River
625 BC
Mentioned in Event: Revolt of Babylon (626 BC)
539 BC
Mentioned in Event: Cyrus' Conquest of Babylonia
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
308 BC
Mentioned in Event: Babylonian War
140 BC
Mentioned in Event: Seleucid-Parthian wars
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
300 AD
Mentioned in Event: Peace Treaty of Diocletian with the Sasanian Empire
306 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
314 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
325 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
337 AD
Mentioned in Event: Division of the Empire among the sons of Constantine the Great
353 AD
Mentioned in Event: Roman civil war of 350-353
360 AD
Mentioned in Event: Military Campaigns of Shapur II in Syria and Mesopotamia
1918 AD
Mentioned in Event: Mesopotamian campaign
1918 AD
Mentioned in Event: Persian Campaign
1941 AD
Mentioned in Event: Anglo-Iraqi War
1947 AD
Mentioned in Event: Anglo-Iraqi War
1958 AD
Mentioned in Event: 14 July Revolution
2003 AD
Mentioned in Event: 2003 invasion of Iraq
2004 AD
Mentioned in Event: Iraq War