carchemish

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Karkamış
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ancient city in Mesopotamia on the Euphrates, near modern-day Turkish-Syrian border
Ancient city-state, western bank of the Euphrates River. Its remains lay southeast of Gaziantep, Tur., near the Syrian border. It was a city of the Mitanni kingdom in the 2nd millennium BC and later a chief Hittite city. Captured by the Egyptians under Thutmose III in the 15th century BC, it came under Assyrian rule in 717 BC. In a battle at Carchemish in 605 BC, Nebuchadrezzar II expelled the Egyptians from Syria