List of conflicts in the Near East

The area known as the "Near East" is usually referred to as Middle East in modern contexts. For periods predating Classical Antiquity, the common term is Ancient Near East. The Near East is generally associated with Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia and to greater degree Egypt, Arabia and Greater Persia.

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Ancient Near East conflicts

Bronze Age

Main articles: Elam#Old Elamite Period, Akkadian Empire, Sumer, Hammurabi, and History of ancient Egypt

Early Iron Age

Note: This section is covering Iron Age I and II, Iron Age III is related as Classic Period

Main articles: Assyrian Empire, Neo-Babylonian Empire, Medes, and History of ancient Israel and Judah

Classic antiquity conflicts

Greco-Persian domination

Main articles: Achaemenid Empire, Greco-Persian Wars, Alexander the Great, and Wars of the Diadochi

Roman, Parthian and Sassanid domination

Main articles: Roman-Persian Wars and Byzantine-Sassanid Wars

Medieval conflicts

Ottoman Period conflicts 1453-1918

Ottoman expansion

Ottoman era period conflicts 1453-1516

Ottoman Empire conflicts

Ottoman Tanzimat period

Post-Ottoman era conflicts

References

  1. ^ Ergil, Doğu, PKK: The Kurdistan Workers' Party, in Marianne Heiberg, Brendan O'Leary, John Tirman, eds., Terror, insurgency, and the state: ending protracted conflicts, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007, p.356
  2. ^ Chaliand, Gérard , The Kurdish tragedy, Palgrave Macmillan, 1994, p.25
  3. ^ Vanly, Ismet Chériff, The Kurds in the Soviet Union, in Philip G. Kreyenbroek, Stefan Sperl, eds., The Kurds: a contemporary overview, Routledge, 2000, p.196

See also

List of conflicts in the Near East