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Kingdom of Moab

1300 BC – 553 BC
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An Iron Age Transjordanian kingdom east of the Dead Sea, famous for the Mesha Stele boasting of victory over Israel; eventually absorbed into Babylonian and then Persian control.

Conquered by the Neo-Babylonian Empire under Nebuchadnezzar II in 582 BCE and reduced to a Babylonian province; the Moabites subsequently disappeared from historical records and their territory was later resettled by Nabataeans.

Borders in 1300 BC · drawn from 1 sourced border frame
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