Battle of Opis
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The Battle of Opis was the last major military engagement between the Achaemenid Empire and the Neo-Babylonian Empire, which took place in September 539 BC, during the Persian invasion of Mesopotamia. At the time, Babylonia was the last major power in Western Asia that was not yet under Persian control. The battle was fought in or near the strategic riverside city of Opis, located north of the capital city of Babylon in modern-day Iraq, and resulted in a decisive victory for Persia. Shortly afterwards, the Babylonian city of Sippar surrendered to Persian forces, who then supposedly entered Babylon without facing any further resistance. The Persian king Cyrus the Great was subsequently proclaimed as the king of Babylonia and its subject territories, thus ending its independence and incorporating the entirety of the fallen Neo-Babylonian Empire into the greater Achaemenid Empire.
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Location: 33.1814, 44.7, KML, Cluster Map, Maps,
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| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
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| area | region | Parthia | Wikidata | ||
| area | region | 246 | Parthian Empire | Wikidata | |
| area | region | 1958 | Unknown | Wikidata | |
| event | armed conflict | 538 | Battle of Opis | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 165 | Battle of Ctesiphon | Roman Empire, Parthian Empire, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 198 | Battle of Ctesiphon | Roman Empire, Parthian Empire, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 263 | Battle of Ctesiphon | Roman Empire, Sasanian Empire, Palmyra, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 363 | Siege of Maiozamalcha | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 363 | Battle of Ctesiphon | Roman Empire, Sasanian Empire, battle, Kingdom of Armenia | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 629 | Siege of Ctesiphon | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 637 | Siege of Ctesiphon | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 942 | Battle of al-Mada'in | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1915 | Battle of Ctesiphon | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Ottoman Empire, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1980 | Operation Scorch Sword | battle, military operation | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1981 | Operation Opera | airstrike | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 2003 | Battle of Baghdad | United States, Iraq, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 2007 | July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike | airstrike | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 2020 | 2020 Camp Taji attacks | missile strike | Wikidata |
| event | war | 238 | War of the Brothers | civil war | Wikidata |
| site | fort | Maogamalcha | human settlement, fortress | Wikidata | |