Battle of Megiddo - Citizendia

Battle of Megiddo refers to one of three major battles fought near the ancient site of Megiddo in the Jezreel Valley of northern Israel. Megiddo (מגידו is a hill in modern Israel near the Kibbutz of Megiddo, known for historical geographical and theological reasons The Jezreel Valley (עמק יזרעאל Emek Yizrael) is a large fertile plain and inland valley in the south of the Lower Galilee region of Israel For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. Of these, the first is by far the most common allusion:

Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC) - between Egyptian forces under the pharaoh Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition
Battle of Megiddo (609 BC) - between Egypt and Judea
Battle of Megiddo (1918) - between British Empire forces and the Ottoman Empire

Some Christian traditions expect a future battle at Armageddon, which is often understood to be a Greek form of Har Megiddo (Hebrew for "Mount Megiddo"), based on Revelation 16:16. The Battle of Megiddo ( 15th century BC) was fought between Egyptian forces under the command of Pharaoh Thutmose III and a large Ancient Egypt was an Ancient Civilization in eastern North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now Thutmose III (sometimes read as Thutmosis or Tuthmosis III and meaning Thoth is Born) was the sixth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Canaanites redirects here For the 1940s social and political movement in Israel, see Canaanites (movement. This Battle of Megiddo is recorded as having taken place in 609 BC with Necho II of Egypt leading his army to Carchemish to fight with his allies the The Battle of Megiddo of September 19 - 21, 1918, and its subsequent exploitation was the culminating victory in British General The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923 ( Old Ottoman Turkish: دولتْ علیّه عثمانیّه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish In Christian mythology Armageddon ( Greek Αρμαγεδδων; also spelled Har-Magedon in some modern English translations also known as

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