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See also:MARY See also:TIGHE (1772-1810)
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TIGLATH-PILESER I., the son of See also:Assur-ris-isi, ascended the See also:throne c
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1120 B.C., and was one of the greatest of Assyrian conquerors
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His first See also:campaign was against the Moschi who had occupied certain Assyrian districts on the Upper See also:Euphrates; then he overran Commagene and eastern See also:Cappadocia, and drove the See also:Hittites from the Assyrian See also:province of Subarti See also:north-See also:east of See also:Malatia
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In a subsequent campaign the Assyrian forces penetrated into the Kurdish mountains See also:south of See also:Lake See also:Van and then turned westward; Malatia submitting to the invader
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In his fifth See also:year Tiglath-Pileser attacked See also:Comana in Cappadocia, and placed a See also:record of his victories engraved on See also:copper plates in a fortress he built to secure his Cilician conquests
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The Aramaeans of north See also:Syria were the next to be attacked, and he thrice made his way as far as the See also:sources of the See also:Tigris
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The command of the high road to the Mediterranean was secured by the See also:possession of the Hittite See also:town of Pethor at the junction of the Euphrates and Sajur, and at Arvad he received presents, including a See also:crocodile, from the See also:Egyptian See also: The empire was supported by a See also:standing See also:army and an elaborate system of See also:finance . The first task of Tiglath-Pileser was to reduce the Aramaean tribes to See also:order, and so win the gratitude of the Babylonian priests . Then he struck terror into the See also:wild tribes on the eastern frontiers of the See also:kingdom by a campaign which ex-tended into the remotest parts of See also:Media . Next came the defeat of a See also:northern See also:coalition headed by Sar-See also:duris of See also:Ararat, no fewer than 72,950 of the enemy being captured along with the See also:city of Arpad, where the Assyrian king received the See also:homage of various Syrian princes . Arpad revolted soon afterwards, but after a See also:siege was taken in 740 B.C . The following year See also:Azariah of See also:Judah appears among the enemies of Tiglath-Pileser, who had over-thrown his Hamathite See also:allies and annexed the nineteen districts of Hamath . The conquered populations were now transported to distant parts of the empire .. In 737 B.C . Tiglath-Pileser again marched into Media, and in 735 he invaded Ararat and wasted the See also:country See also:round the See also:capital Van to a distance of 450 See also:miles . In 734 B.C. he was called to the help of Yahu-khazi (See also:Ahaz) of Judah, who had been attacked by Pekah of See also:Israel and Rezon (Rasun) of See also:Damascus . Rezon, defeated in See also:battle, fled to his capital which was at once invested by the Assyrians, while with another portion of his army Tiglath-Pileser ravaged Syria and overran the kingdom of See also:Samaria . See also:Ammon, See also:Moab, See also:Edom and the See also:queen of Sheba sent See also:tribute, and Teima in northern See also:Arabia was captured by the Assyrian troops . In 732 B.C . Damascus See also:fell; Rezon was put to See also:death, and an Assyrian See also:satrap appointed in his See also:stead . See also:Tyre also was made tributary . The next year Tiglath-Pileser entered Babylonia, but it was not until 729 B.C. that the Chaldaean See also:prince Ukin-zer (Chinzirus) was driven from See also:Babylon and Tiglath-Pileser acknowledged as its legitimate ruler . In the See also:early See also:part of Tebet 727 B.C. he died, after having built two palaces, one at See also:Nineveh, the other at See also:Calah . See P . Rost, See also:Die Keilschriftteste Tiglat-Pilesers III . (1893) ; also BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA, § v . See also:History (" Second Assyrian Empire ") ; and authorities quoted in § viii . See also:Chronology . |
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