Schaff's Bible Dictionary
CARCHEMIISH, or CHAR'CHEMISH {citadel of Chemosh), a chief city of northern Syria, on the Euphrates, where a great and decisive battle was fought, in which Nebuchadnezzar defeated Pharaoh-necho, 2 Chr 35:20; 2 Kgs 23:29; Jer 46:2, in b. c. 605. It was formerly identified with Circesium. Rawlinson placed it at Bir, near Hierapolis, on the Euphrates; a later writer at Kalaat, below Beredjit.