carchemish

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carchemish - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Carchemish
  fortress of Chemosh, a city on the west bank of the Euphrates
  (Jer. 46:2; 2 Chr. 35:20), not, as was once supposed, the
  Circesium at the confluence of the Chebar and the Euphrates, but
  a city considerably higher up the river, and commanding the
  ordinary passage of the Euphrates; probably identical with
  Hierapolis. It was the capital of the kingdom of the northern
  Hittites. The Babylonian army, under Nebuchadnezzar, the son of
  Nabopolassar, here met and conquered the army of Pharaoh-necho,
  king of Egypt (B.C. 607). It is mentioned in monuments in B.C.
  1600 and down to B.C. 717.