In 609 BC, King Nabopolassar captured Kumukh, which cut off the Egyptian army, then based at Carchemish.

Cyaxares reorganized and modernized the Median Army, then joined with King Nabopolassar of Babylonia.

Nabopolassar took advantage of the chaos gripping Assyria, and seized the city of Babylon in 620 BC with the help of its native inhabitants.

In 620 BC Nabopolassar seized control over much of Babylonia with the support of most of the inhabitants, with only the city of Nippur showing any loyalty to the Assyrian king.

To complete the royal palace begun by Nabopolassar, nothing was spared, neither " cedar-wood, nor bronze, gold, silver, rare and precious stones "; an underground passage and a stone bridge connected the two parts of the city separated by the Euphrates ; the city itself was rendered impregnable by the construction of a triple line of walls.

The city was restored by Nabopolassar and his son Nebuchadnezzar II.

In 609 BC, Nabopolassar took the Assyrian city of Harran, where Assyrian forces had retreated after the fall of Nineveh.

Nabopolassar tried to capture Nippur, the main Assyrian center of power in Babylonia, but failed because of the arrival of Assyrian reinforcements.

In 621 BC or shortly thereafter Nabopolassar successfully captured Nippur and so broke the main hold of the Assyrians in Babylonia proper.

It was only after 620 BC under Nabopolassar that the Chaldeans finally gained control over Babylon, founding the Chaldean Dynasty.

Bitter fighting continued in the Babylonian heartlands from 620 to 616 BC, with Assyrian forces encamped in the region in an attempt to eject Nabopolassar.

Nabopolassar was succeeded by Nebuchadnezzar II, who became king after the death of his father in 604 BC.

The Tower of Babel has often been associated with known structures, notably the Etemenanki, a ziggurat dedicated to Marduk by Nabopolassar ( c. 610 BC ).

* 626 BC: Nabopolassar revolts against Assyria, founds the Neo-Babylonian Empire.

* 605 BC: Nebuchadrezzar II succeeds his father Nabopolassar as King of Babylon.

Babylonia took advantage of this and rebelled under Nabopolassar, a member of the Semitic Chaldeans, who had settled in south eastern Mesopotamia circa 1000 BC.

The stalemate ended in 616 BC, when Nabopolassar entered into alliance with Cyaxares, king of the Medes and Persians, ( who had also taken advantage of the anarchy in Assyria to free his peoples from the Assyrian yoke ) and also the Scythians and Cimmerians.

* 605 BC — Nebuchadnezzar II succeeds his father Nabopolassar as King of Babylon.

* 605 BC — Death of Nabopolassar, first ruler of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.

* 626 BC — Nabopolassar revolts against Assyria, founds the Neo-Babylonian Empire.

During the fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Harran became the stronghold of its last king, Ashur-uballit II, who had retreated from Nineveh when it was sacked by Nabopolassar of Babylon and his Median allies in 612 BC.

Harran was besieged and conquered by Nabopolassar and Cyaxares in 610 BC.

Nabopolassar (; Akkadian: Nebû-apal-usur ; 658 BC – 605 BC ) was the king of the Babylonia and played a key role in the demise of the Assyrian Empire following the death of the last powerful Assyrian king, Ashurbanipal.

Nabopolassar revolted against the Assyrian Empire ( which had ruled Babylon for the previous 200 years ) after the death of the last effective Assyrian king, Ashurbanipal, some time between 631 BC and 627 BC.

From 610 BC until his death, Nabopolassar also waged war against Egypt, which was allied with Assyria.

In 605 BC, his son Nebuchadnezzar fought Pharaoh Necho II of Egypt and the remnants of the Assyrian army at the Battle of Carchemish, shortly before Nabopolassar died.

* c. 627 BC: The death of Ashurbanipal and the successful revolt of Nabopolassar replaces the Neo-Assyrian Empire with the Neo-Babylonian Empire

The contenders included Ashur-etil-ilani, his brother Sinsharishkun, general Sin-shumu-lishir, and the eventual new king of Babylonia, Nabopolassar.

However, the Assyrian king, Sin-shar-ishkun was plagued by constant revolt in Nineveh, and was thus unable to eject Nabopolassar.

These alleged refugees claimed the ancestry of Sargon of Akkad ( whose dynasty died out some 15 centuries before the fall of Assyria ), they also contradictionally claimed ancestry from Nabopolassar, a Babylonian king of Chaldean extraction who played a major part in the destruction of the Assyrian Empire.

Additionally, the claimants to this ancestry also claim descendancy from Sargon of Akkad ( whose dynasty died out over 1500 years before the Assyrian dynasty fell ), and from Nabopolassar, who was a Chaldean, politically and militarily opposed to Assyria, and not in fact an Assyrian.

A stalemate ensued with Nabopolassar unable to eject the Assyrians despite their greatly weakened state, and Sin-shar-ishkun unable to unseat Nabopolassar.

Nabopolassar and his allies were now in possession of much of the huge Neo Assyrian Empire.

Nabopolassar was followed by his son Nebuchadnezzar II, whose reign of 43 years made Babylon once more the mistress of much the civilized world, taking over a fair portion of the former Assyrian Empire once ruled by its Assyrian brethren, the eastern and north eastern portion being taken by the Medes and the far north by the Scythians.

Nebuchadnezzar was the oldest son and successor of Nabopolassar, who delivered Babylon from its dependence on Assyria and laid Nineveh in ruins.

Nabopolassar was intent on annexing the western provinces of Syria from Necho II ( who was still hoping to restore Assyrian power ), and to this end dispatched his son westward with a large army.

Nabopolassar died in August that year, and Nebuchadnezzar returned to Babylon to ascend to the throne.

He gained nominations to contest progressively safer seats at two subsequent General Elections and was in both cases elected, for Shrewsbury in 1841 ( despite serious opposition, and financial difficulties which opponents seized on ), and then for Buckinghamshire county in 1847.

I regret that .... I wish I had gotten up then and seized the moment to set a tone, a tone that I had set in Texas, a positive and inclusive tone.

First military right-wingers opposing Alessandri seized power in September 1924, and then reformers in favor of the ousted president took charge in January 1925.

Liechtenstein claims restitution for ( which is ten times the size of Liechtenstein ) of land in the Czech Republic confiscated from its princely family in 1918 by the then newly established state of Czechoslovakia, the predecessor of the Czech Republic ; the Czech Republic insists that the power to claim restitution does not go back before February 1948, when the Communists seized power ; Liechtenstein did not diplomatically recognize the Czech Republic until 2009, and the Czech Republic in turn did not diplomatically recognize Liechtenstein.

Multiple clitics can be stacked up, and will split a preverb from the rest of the verb if the preverb comes at the beginning of the clause, e. g. diz-uh-þan-sat ijōs " and then he seized them ( fem.

Unrest and rebellion plagued the government until 1965, when Lieutenant General Mobutu, by then commander in chief of the national army, seized control of the country and declared himself president for five years.

:" Deprogrammers are people who, at the request of a parent or other close relative, will have a member of a religious sect seized, then hold him against his will and subject him to mental, emotional, and even physical pressures until he renounces his religious beliefs.

Napoleon then seized power through a coup and established the Consulate in 1799.

French armies entered Spain in order to attack Portugal, but then seized Spanish fortresses and took over the kingdom by surprise.

Peter I was succeeded by his second wife ( Catherine I, 1725 – 1728 ) who was merely a figure-head for a powerful group of high officials, then by his minor grandson ( Peter II, 1728 – 1730 ), then by his niece, Anna, daughter of Tsar Ivan V. In 1741 Elizabeth, daughter of Peter, seized the throne, assisted by the Preobrazhensky Regiment.

The other ship then sailed without him only to be seized by a local Sumatran king a few months later.

Protesters seized the main government building, and Akayev hurriedly fled the country, first to neighboring Kazakhstan and then to Moscow.

At last making it back home on a bicycle, she found that American troops had seized her house, then was surprised by how kindly they treated her.

A large Muslim force seized Bari, until then a Lombard gastaldate under the control of Pandenulf, in 847.

" He then seized the records, snatched the bill from the hands of the clerk, drove the members out at the point of the bayonet, locked the doors, put the key in his pocket, and returned to Whitehall.

* The Principality of Sealand, a World War II-era anti-aircraft platform built in the North Sea beyond Britain's then territorial limit, seized by a pirate radio group in 1967 as a base for their operations, and currently used as the site of a secure web-hosting facility.

Israel then launched Operation Bringing Home the Goods, in which it raided the Jericho prison and seized the five.

He was then seized and taken to England as a prisoner.

He was then seized and put to death ( 1 Kings 2: 13-25 ).

It soared out over the coastal waters, then plunged into the ocean and seized Whale.

The latter are seized and held by the tube feet ; sea stars then stiffen their legs, expanding the shell.

Occupied by the troops of Louis of Bavaria, the city was sold to a rich Genoese, Gherardino Spinola, then seized by John, king of Bohemia.

King Æthelred then ordered that Sigeferth's widow, Ealdgyth, be seized and brought to Malmesbury Abbey, but Edmund seized and married her in defiance of his father, probably to consolidate his power base in the east midlands.