Tarbiṣu (modern Sherif Khan, Ninawa Governorate, Iraq) was an ancient city about 3 miles north of Nineveh. The first mention of location was in a chronicle...

drastically in 616 BC, when the Medes attacked the Assyrian empire. The fall of Tarbiṣu occurred when the Median army, led by Cyaxares, attacked and conquered...

city, after which the Medes marched north along the Tigris and seized Tarbiṣu, following which they crossed the river and marched down its right bank...

attested in a number sources. Her cult centers were Kutha in Babylonia and Tarbiṣu in Assyria. The best attested spelling of the theonym Laṣ in cuneiform...

Cyaxares, king of the Medes, in 616 BC. The Median forces swiftly conquered Tarbisu and decisively defeated the Assyrian army at the Battle of Assur. Then...

Babylonians then allied with the Medes and Scythians. The Median army took Tarbisu, near Nineveh, and encamped nearby; they then attacked the city of Assur...

Tell Arpachiyah (Tepe Reshwa) Tell Maghzaliyah Shibaniba (Tell Billa) Tarbisu (Sherif Khan) Nineveh (Ninua) Qatara or Karana (Tell al-Rimah) Tell Hamoukar...

(Nineveh), and continued rapidly northward to capture the nearby city of Tarbisu. Afterward, they went back down the Tigris and laid siege to the city of...

The chronicle then lists Habaruha, Kutila, Tarbiṣu, Kudina, Remaku and Nagabbilhi. Of these only Tarbiṣu is known, a town a short distance from Nineveh...

Assyrians. That same year, they defeated Sinsharishkun at the Battle of Tarbisu, and in 614 BC, they conquered Assur, plundering the city and killing many...

Nabopolassar lose to the Assyrians. 615 BC Fall of Tarbisu The Medes led by Cyaxares take the city of Tarbisu from Assyria, pushing into their heartland. 614...

territory between Arrapha and Nineveh. In mid-614 BCE, the Medes captured Tarbisu, a city little to the north of the Assyrian capital Nineveh, and then moved...

the cities of Nimrud and Nineveh and successfully conquered the city of Tarbisu. They then besieged Assur. This siege was successful and the Medes captured...

the cities of Nimrud and Nineveh and successfully conquered the city of Tarbisu. They then besieged Assur. This siege was successful and the Medes captured...

Tiglath-Pileser. As crown prince, Sennacherib also owned an estate at Tarbisu. The royal educator, Hunnî, would have educated Sennacherib and his siblings...

on the cities of Kalhu and Nineveh and successfully conquered the city Tarbisu. They then besieged Assur. This siege was successful and the Medes captured...

metrological text, a shrine of Ishum existed in Nippur. He was also worshiped in Tarbiṣu in Assyria, where he received offerings alongside Nergal and Laṣ. According...

inscription on a burnt limestone vessel from either Nineveh or the nearby Tarbisu. An origin in Nineveh is more probable. The vessel, given the designation...

Siege of Babylon – 689 BC – Campaigns of the Neo-Assyrian Empire Fall of Tarbisu – 615 BC – Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire Fall of Assur...