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

• Authors: FARROKH Kaveh , MAKSYMIUK Katarzyna , SKUPNIEWICZ Patryk , FATHI Salam
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

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the Assyrian Empire; the Medes; Iran; cavalry; chariot; military system

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Przyrodniczo-Humanistyczny w Siedlcach
• Journal: Historia i Świat
• Year: 2022
• Issue: 11
• Pages: 125-144

Dates

published

2022-08-28

Contributors

author

FARROKH Kaveh

• Langara College, Vancouver, Canada

author

MAKSYMIUK Katarzyna

• Siedlce University, Poland

author

SKUPNIEWICZ Patryk

• Siedlce University, Poland

author

FATHI Salam

• Azad University, Tehran, Iran

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https://doi.org/10.34739/his.2022.11.07