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Rusa I in Wikipedia

Rusa I (ruled 735-713 BC) was a King of Urartu. He succeeded his father, the great King Sarduri II. Reign Before Rusa's reign had begun, his father, King Sarduri II the Great, had already expanded the kingdom as far south as Nineveh and had annexed various Assyrian and Anatolian territories. However, when Rusa I inherited the throne, the Assyrians...

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Nazi-Maruttash in Wikipedia

Nazimaruttash was a Kassite king of Babylon ca. 1307–1282 BC (short chronology). Nazimaruttash is known to have made at least one Kudurru boundary stone....

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Ninurta-Tukulti-Ashur in Wikipedia

Ninurta-tukulti-Ashur (Ninurta-tukultī-Aššur) was briefly King of Assyria in 1133 BC. He succeeded his father, the long-reigning Ashur-dan I, but the throne was very quickly usurped by his brother, Mutakkil-Nusku. Ninurta-tukulti-Ashur was forced to go into exile in Babylonia, with which he had maintained friendly relations....

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Pekahiah in Wikipedia

Pekahiah ("the Lord opened his eyes"; Latin: Phaceia) was a king of Israel and the son of Menahem, whom he succeeded, and the second and last king of Israel from the House of Gadi. He ruled from the capital of Samaria. Pekahiah became king in the fiftieth year of the reign of Azariah, king of Judah.[1] William F. Albright has dated his reign to 73...

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Puduhepa in Wikipedia

Puduhepa (Hittite: Pudu-Ḫepa, or Pudu-Kheba) - Hittite queen and Tawanannas married to King Hattusili III. She has been referred to as "one of the most influential women known from the Ancient Near East."[1] She played an important role in diplomacy with Egypt and was a co-signatory in the Ulmi-Teshub treaty. After her husband's death she was invol...

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Rusa Iii in Wikipedia

Rusa III (629 - 601) [1] was the king of Urartu, called son of Erimena, probably the brother of Rusa II. Not much is known from his reign; his name was on a huge granary at Armavir and a series of bronze shields from the temple of Khaldi found at Rusahinili.[2]...

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Kurash in Wikipedia

Kurash is a form of upright jacket wrestling native to Uzbekistan, practiced since ancient times. It is a Uzbek wrestling art, It is an event in the Asian Games. There is an effort to include Kurash in the Olympic games. Rules Competitors, one wearing a green jacket and the other a blue jacket, try to throw each other to the ground. If thrown to ...

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Manana in Wikipedia

Mānana Island (technically an islet) is located 0.75 mi (1.21 km) off Kaupō Beach, near Makapuʻu at the eastern end of the Island of Oʻahu in the Hawaiian Islands. In the Hawaiian language, mānana means "buoyant". The islet is commonly referred to as Rabbit Island, because its shape as seen from the nearby Oʻahu shore looks something like a rabbit'...

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Menua in Wikipedia

Menua was the fifth known King of Urartu, an ancient country in the Armenian Highlands, from circa 810 BC to approximately 785 BC. A younger son of the preceding Urartuan King, Ishpuinis, Menua was adopted as co-ruler by his father in the last years of his reign. Menua enlarged the kingdom greatly in numerous wars against the neighbouring countrie...

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Mursili I in wikipedia

Mursili I was a king of the Hittites ca. 1556–1526 BC (short chronology), and was the grandson of his predecessor, Hattusili I. Mursili is credited with the conquest of the kingdom of Yamhad and its capital, Aleppo, in northern Syria. Ca. 1531 BC, Mursili led an unprecedented march of 2000 km south into the heart of Mesopotamia where he sacked the...

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