Phoenicia during its struggles with Babylon and Egypt (about B.C.
635-527) Decline of Assyria--Scythic troubles--Fall of Nineveh--Union of the Phoenician cities under Tyre--Invasion of Syria by Neco--Battle of Megiddo--Submission of Phoenicia to Neco-- Tyrian colony at Memphis--Conquest of Phoenicia by Nebuchadnezzar--Reign of Ithobal II.

at Tyre--He revolts from Nebuchadnezzar but is reduced to subjection--Decline of Tyre--General weakness of Phoenicia under Babylon.
It is impossible to fix the year in which Phoenicia became independent of Assyria.

The last trace of Assyrian interference, in the way of compulsion, with any of the towns belongs to B.C.645, when she severely punished Hosah and Accho.

The latest sign of her continued domination is found in B.C.636, when the Assyrian governor of a Phoenician town, Zimirra, appears in the list of Eponyms.[14180] It must have been very soon after this that the empire became involved in those troubles and difficulties which led on to its dissolution.

According to Herodotus,[14181] Cyaxares, king of Media, laid siege to Nineveh in B.C.
633, or very soon afterwards.