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Halule

Halule was a city that is unrecognized archaeologically, although there are speculations that its ruins should be sought somewhere near Baghdad. The city is known mainly for the Battle of Halule in 691 BC between the armies of the Assyrian king Sennacherib and the combined armies of the Babylonians, Arameans, Chaldeans, Elamites and peoples from the Zagros Mountains.

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Halule (Akkadian: Ḫalulê, a transliteration of cuneiform written Ha-le-lu-e)1 was a city that is unrecognized archaeologically, although there are speculations that its ruins should be sought somewhere near Baghdad. The city is known mainly for the Battle of Halule in 691 BC between the armies of the Assyrian king Sennacherib (705–681 BC) and the combined armies of the Babylonians, Arameans, Chaldeans, Elamites and peoples from the Zagros Mountains.2

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  1. Glassner, Jean-Jacques (2004). Mesopotamian Chronicles. Society of Biblical Literature. pp. 198–199. ISBN 9781589830905.
  2. Bryce, Trevor (2009). The Routledge Handbook of The Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia. Routledge. pp. 280–281. ISBN 978-0415394857.