The destruction of the town of Sidon and the deportation of its population to Assyria by the Assyrian king Esarhaddon after the failed rebellion of the Sidonian king Abdi-Milkutti in 677 BC. Esarhaddon, king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire who reigned 681 – 669 BC. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.

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