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Necho II
Necho II was a pharaoh of Egypt's Twenty-sixth Dynasty in the late seventh and early sixth centuries BCE. He intervened in the Levant in support of the collapsing Assyrian state. His defeat by Nebuchadnezzar II at the Battle of Carchemish in 605 BCE secured the Levant for the Chaldean Empire.
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