Ruler · 701 – 612 BCE

Sîn-šar-iškun

Lived 701 – 612 BCE. King of Assyria (Assyria), 627 BCE – 612 BCE; also in the line of Neo-Assyrian Empire, Babylon and Babylonia.

Wikidata's English label: Sinsharishkun.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 701 BCE – 612 BCE; 89 years
In office: 15 years; one reign
Lines: 4; states
Left it: died in office; read off the dates alone

King of Assyria

Assyria · the 71st of 72 dated reigns · 2026 BCE – 609 BCE

67 before

Kandalanu647 BCE – 627 BCE

Aššur-etil-ilāni631 BCE – 627 BCE

Sîn-šumu-līšir627 BCE – 626 BCE

Sîn-šar-iškun627 BCE – 612 BCE

Ashur-uballit II612 BCE – 609 BCE

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 627 BCE – 612 BCE · 15 years · came to it aged 74

Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 612 BCE, the year they died

Also in the line of Neo-Assyrian Empire (19th of 21), Babylon (30th of 37) and Babylonia (30th of 37, read from the line of Babylon).

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