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590s BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (151 words) |
 | 599 BC - Vardhamana Mahavira, last Tirthankar of Jainism is born. |
| 598 BC - Jehoiachin succeeds Jehoiakim as King of Judah. |
| 590 BC - Egyptian army sacks Napata, compelling the Cushite court to move to a more secure location at Meroe near the sixth cataract. |
| Phocis: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (1077 words) |
| B.C.) began with Phocis trying to reestablish itself and ended with the victory of Philip II of Macedon, who thereby became arbiter of Greece. |
| During the Persian invasion of 480 BC the Phocians at first joined in the national defence, but, by their irresolute conduct at the Battle of Thermopylae lost that position for the Greeks; at the Battle of Plataea they were enrolled on the Persian side. |
| During the 3rd century BC it passed into the power of Macedonia and of the Aetolian League, to which in 196 it was definitely annexed. |
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