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572 or 585?

Tyre becomes a Babylonian vassal, after a siege of thirteen years

555-539

Nabonidus, king of Babylon

547

Cyrus defeats Croesus, king of Lydia.

539

Cyrus takes Babylon.

525

Cambyses (525–522 B.C.) defeats Psamtik III at Pelusium and establishes the Twenty-seventh Dynasty (525-404 BC).