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Megiddo and the long arc of Middle East warfare
A historical overview traces Megiddo as Armageddon's biblical locus and surveys a millennia of regional conflicts. From Nebuchadnezzar and Sennacherib through the Hittites and Egyptians to Alexander the Great and Napoleon, the article chronicles battles and rulers shaping the Middle East, ending with Lawrence of Arabia and the 1917 Jerusalem milestone under Gen. Edmund Allenby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Israel
Middle East
Meggido
Lebanon
Syria
Jordan
Nebuchadnezzar
Tyre
Sennacherib
Sargon
Ashurbanipal
Thutmosis II
Palestine
Ramses
Turkey
Alexander the Great
Arbela
Mosul
Iraq
Julius Caesar
Cleopatra
Pharnaces
Pontus
Zela
Richard the Lion- Hearted
England
Fredderick Barbarossa
Saladin
Baghdad
Tamerlane
Ankara
Sivas
Selim the Grim
Selim
Kurdistan
Azerbaijan
Egypt
Arabia
Napoleon
Britain
Iran
T. S. Lawrence
Lawrence of
Klerk
Edmund al Jenby
Jerusalem