battle, ancient

Fall of Tarbisu

Name: Fall of Tarbisu
Location: Iraq

Fall of Tarbisu was a battle fought in 614 BC in what is now Iraq. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at its recorded location. It was part of the Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire, which ran from 626 BC to 609 BC. The recorded result: Median victory. Recorded strength: Unknown against Unknown.

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Fought614 BC

WhereIraq36.383N, 43.117E, placed at the location, approximate

OutcomeMedian victory

BelligerentsMediaagainstAssyria

Casualties and lossesUnknownandUnknown

Part ofMedo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire626 BC to 609 BC

Where it sits in the Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire

6 placed engagements of the Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire in time order; taller ticks are more widely documented. Each tick is a link.

Record

Date	614 BC (year precision)
Place	Iraq 36.383N, 43.117E
Kind	Battle, ancient
Strength	Unknown	Unknown
Casualties and losses	Unknown	Unknown
Commanders	Cyaxares	Sin-Shar-Ishkun

Placed at its recorded location; the exact site is not recorded. with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Siege of Mosul 1743, 1.8 km S
Battle of Nineveh AD 627, 4.2 km SE
Fall of Nineveh 612 BC, 4.2 km SE
Siege of Mosul 1096, 5.0 km S
Siege of Mosul 1261, 5.8 km S

In the same war

Before: Fall of Assur 614 BC
After: Fall of Nineveh 612 BC
All 6 engagements of Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire

Fall of Tarbisu is one of 25 engagements of the 7th century BC in the atlas and one of 173 in present-day Iraq.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q55611440, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Fall of Tarbiṣu, revision 1370617972, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.