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The year 619 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 135 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 619 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
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- ↑ Asimov, Isaac (1965) The Greeks, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, p. 91
- 1 2 Dale, Alexander (2015). "WALWET and KUKALIM: Lydian coin legends, dynastic succession, and the chronology of Mermnad kings". Kadmos. 54: 151–166. doi:10.1515/kadmos-2015-0008 . Retrieved 10 November 2021.
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