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.jpg) Henry Charles Seppings-Wrightː The Sea Fight at Pelusium (Hutchinson's History of the Nations, 1922) | |||||||||
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| Cambyses II | Psamtik III[a] (POW) | ||||||||
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| 7,000 (Ctesias) | 50,000 (Ctesias) | ||||||||
  Pelusium Location of the Battle of Pelusium. | |||||||||
The Battle of Pelusium was the first major battle between the Achaemenid Empire and Egypt. This decisive battle transferred the throne of the Pharaohs to Cambyses II of Persia, marking the beginning of the Achaemenid Twenty-seventh Dynasty of Egypt. It was fought in 525 BC near Pelusium, an important city in the eastern extremes of Egypt's Nile Delta, 30 km to the south-east of the modern Port Said. The battle was preceded and followed by sieges at Gaza and Memphis.
- ^ Bang, Peter Fibiger; Scheidel, Walter, eds. (February 2013). The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195188318.
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