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The siege of Jerusalem (63 BC) occurred during Pompey the Great's campaigns in the East, shortly after his successful conclusion of the Third Mithridatic War. Pompey had been asked to intervene in a dispute over inheritance to the throne of the Hasmonean Kingdom , which turned into a war between Hyrcanus II and Aristobulus II .
Year 63 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cicero and Hybrida (or, less frequently, year 691 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 63 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for ...
In 63 BC, the Roman general Pompey conquered the eastern Mediterranean. The people of the Hellenized cities, who were under the rule of the Jewish Hasmonean Kingdom, [8] welcomed Pompey as a liberator. When Pompey reorganized the region, he awarded a group of these cities with autonomy under Roman protection; this was the origin of the Decapolis.
[3] [4] [5] The Semitic root S-L-M in the name is thought to refer to either "peace" (Salam or Shalom in modern Arabic and Hebrew) or Shalim, the god of dusk in the Canaanite religion. c. 1850 BCE: According to the Book of Genesis, the Binding of Isaac takes place on a mountain in the land of Moriah (see Chronology of the Bible). Biblical ...
301 BC: Ptolemy I Soter conquered the region from the heirs of Alexander the Great. 200 BC: Antiochus III the Great from the Seleucid dynasty conquered the region from the Ptolemaic dynasty. 167–160 BC: Maccabean Revolt; 160–63 BC: The independent rule of the Hasmoneans. 63 BC-37 BC: Roman and Parthian influence; 37 BC – 6 AD The Early ...
Jerusalem during the Second Temple period describes the history of the city during the existence there of the Second Temple, from the return to Zion under Cyrus the Great (c. 538 BCE) to the siege and destruction the city by Titus during the First Jewish–Roman War in 70 CE. [1]
[11] [12] Around 720 BC Israel and Aram Damascus were conquered by the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Meanwhile, the kingdoms of Ammon, Edom and Moab benefited from trade between Syria and Arabia. [13] In 701 BC, they submitted to the Assyrians to avoid retribution. [14] Babylonians took over the Assyrians' empire after its disintegration in 627 BC. [13]
[6] [5] The kingdom was proclaimed by Mithridates I in 281 BC [7] and lasted until its conquest by the Roman Republic in 63 BC. [8] The Kingdom of Pontus reached its largest extent under Mithridates VI the Great, who conquered Colchis , Cappadocia , Bithynia , the Greek colonies of the Tauric Chersonesos , and for a brief time the Roman ...