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.