-539

This page relates to the year -539 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

September: The Persian king Cyrus II walk on the Babylonia disabled by the long distance of Nabonide in Tiama and by its fanaticism in favor of Sîn. Governors give up the king.
October 12th: Following the catch without blow to férir of Sippar by Cyrus, the clergy of Marduk opens the capital with the Persian troops.
the king Nabonide leaves the Arabia to inaugurate the large temple of Sîn to Harran, then turns over to Babylon the day before the action of Cyrus against the capital. Nabonide does not seem to have included/understood the danger which threatens the empire. All its action appears in complete shift with the situation.
October 23rd: Cyrus takes Babylon one feastday, without engagements, while passing by the bed of the Euphrate (period of low-water). Balthazar is killed in the palate, Nabonide is made prisoner (or appointed governor of Carmanie, in Iran). The city is not plundered. Cyrus is posed as a liberator, being made recognize as king by the will of Marduk without annexing the country.

to strengthen its spiritual power, Nabonide made transport to Babylon all the images of the gods of the Mésopotamie of the south. The populations are demoralized.

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