Carchemish

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  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.