Euphrates

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The Euphrates is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of West Asia.

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Euphrates: Achaemenid Empire
In the centuries to come, control of the wider Euphrates basin shifted from the Neo-Assyrian Empire (which collapsed between 612 and 599 BCE) to the short lived Median Empire (612–546 BCE) and equally brief Neo-Babylonian Empire (612–539 BCE) in the last years of the 7th century BCE, and eventually to the Achaemenid Empire (539–333 BCE).
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Euphrates: Cyrus Takes Babylon, 539 BCE
Tolini proposes that a portion of the Persian army, under the command of General Ugbaru, penetrated the Enlil Gate on the West side of the Euphrates, then crossed the river to take the eastern districts of Babylon.
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