Yes. Hanukkah is a minor holiday that commemorates the victory of the Jews against the Assyrian-Greeks in the Maccabean War of 165 BCE.
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Answer:
No, Assyria had ceased to exist a couple of centuries before the events of Hanukkah. It’s “Syrian-Greeks,” not “Assyrian.” This strange error has been copied on Answers.com from one answerer to the next, and I’ve gone back and corrected many of them.
The Syrian-Greeks were identical with the Seleucids. They began after the death of Alexander, when his empire became divided into Macedonia, the Seleucid Empire, the Ptolemaic empire, and the kingdom of Pergamon.
