List of conflicts in the Near East

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This article is about conflicts in the Near East up until the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. For a more extensive list of conflicts from the 20th and 21st centuries, see List of modern conflicts in the Middle East.

Western Asia
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This is a list of conflicts in the

independence). The list might also contain episodes of human sacrifice, mass suicide, and ethnic cleansing/genocide
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Ancient times

Further information: History of the Middle East, Ancient Near East, Fertile Crescent, History of the Caucasus, and Elam

Bronze Age

Egypt

Further information: History of Egypt

Mesopotamia

Further information: History of Mesopotamia

Levant

Further information: History of the ancient Levant

Anatolia

Further information: History of Anatolia

Early Iron Age

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

Main articles:
Median Empire, Neo-Babylonian Empire, and Achaemenid Empire

Classical antiquity

Greco-Persian domination

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

Roman, Parthian and Sassanid domination

Main article: Roman–Persian Wars

Medieval times

Modern times

Early modern period

Early Ottoman expansion

Ottoman era period conflicts 1453–1516

  • Yazidi uprising against Safavids 1506–1510
  • Şahkulu Rebellion
    1511

Conflicts involving the Ottoman empire

Late modern period

Conflicts involving the Ottoman empire

Ottoman Tanzimat period

Post-Ottoman era conflicts

This article is about past conflicts in the Near East. For modern conflicts (post-Ottoman period), see List of modern conflicts in the Middle East.

See also

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
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