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c. 4200 BCEFounding of the city of Susa.
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c. 3200 BCE - c. 2700 BCESusa develops from an earlier settlement during the Proto-Elamite Period.
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c. 2700 BCE - c. 1600 BCESusa establishes commerce and trade during the Old Elamite Period; is conquered by Kish, Akkad, Ur, and Babylon.
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c. 1600 BCE - c. 1100 BCESusa flourishes during the Middle Elamite Period; consolidates power.
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c. 1275 BCE - 1240 BCEReign of Untash-Napirisha from Susa; construction of the Great Ziggurat of Dur-Untash.
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c. 1210 BCE - 1100 BCESusa prospers under the Shutrukid Dynasty.
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c. 1185 BCE - c. 1150 BCEReign of Shutruk Nakhunte who founds Elamite Empire from Susa.
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c. 1100 BCE - 540 BCENeo-Elamite Period during which Susa is conquered by a series of foreign powers; Elamite history ends with conquest by Cyrus the Great.
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c. 646 BCEDestruction of the Elamite city of Susa by Ashurbanipal of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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c. 465 BCE - c. 424 BCESusa is destroyed by fire under the reign of King Artaxerxes I.
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404 BCE - 358 BCEReign of Artaxerxes II Mnemon of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
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c. Oct 331 BCESusa surrenders without contest to Alexander the Great who sacks it.
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312 BCE - 63 BCESusa is part of the Seleucid Empire.
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247 BCE - 224 CESusa serves as one of two capitals under the Parthian Empire.
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224 CE - 651 CESusa declines under the reign of the Sasanian Empire.
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309 CE - 379 CEReign of Shapur II of the Sasanian Empire; Susa is sacked and population deported.
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638 CESusa is sacked and destroyed by Muslim invaders under Caliph Omar.
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1218 CESusa is completely destroyed by invading Mongols.
