Assyria and Wizardly Geography

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 99188

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:

Potioncat:
 Back when we were all wondering what sort of name "Karkaroff" is and 
> what it might mean, someone found an Assyrian town or person with a 
> similar name.  It was Biblical and had to do with a battle.
> 
> Someone more adept than me would have to find it though, if anyone 
is 
> interested. Any way, it adds to the Assyria connection.

Geoff:
Was this by any chance Carchemish? It was the Eastern capital of the 
Hittite Empire and commanded one of the most important fords of the 
Euphrates. My source quotes it as "a gate to Syria for invading 
Egyptians and Assyrians to the Tigris-Euphrates valley."

There are at least two brief Biblical references: Jeremiah 46:2 which 
mentions Nebuchadnezzar's crushing defeat of the Pharaoh Neco (605 
BC) and a further mention in Isaiah 10:9.