Sargon II in Wikipedia
Sargon II ( Akkadian Šarru-kên "legitimate king", reigned 722
– 705 BC) was an Assyrian king. Sargon II became co-regent
with Shalmaneser V in 722 BC, and became the sole ruler of the
kingdom of Assyria in 722 BC after the death of Shalmaneser V.
It is not clear whether he was the son of Tiglath-Pileser III
or a usurper unrelated to the royal family. In his
inscriptions, he styles himself as a new man, rarely referring
to his predecessors; however he took the name Sharru-kinu
("true king"), after Sargon of Akkad - who had founded the
first Semitic Empire in the region some 16 centuries
earlier.[1] Sargon is the Biblical form of the name...
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