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Mandane of Media in Wikipedia

Mandana of Media (b. ca. 584 BCE) was a princess of Media and, later, the Queen consort of Cambyses I of Anshan and mother of Cyrus the Great, ruler of the Persia's Achaemenid Dynasty. Mandana in Herodotus' histories According to Herodotus, Mandana was born to Astyages, King of Media and son of Cyaxares the Great, and Princess Aryenis of Lydia, da...

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Merodach-Baladan (Babylonian Marduk-Apla-Iddina Ii)

Marduk-apla-iddina II (the biblical Merodach-Baladan, also called Marduk-Baladan, Baladan and Berodach-Baladan. lit. Marduk has given me an Heir.) (reigned 722 BC – 710 BC, 703 BC – 702 BC) was a Chaldean prince who usurped the Babylonian throne in 721 BC. Marduk-apla iddina II was also known as one of the brave kings who maintained Babylonian inde...

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Kuzi-Teshub in Wikipedia

Kuzi-Teshub was the son of Talmi-Teshub who was both the last viceroy of the Hittite Empire at Carchemish under Suppiluliuma II, and a direct descendant of Suppiluliuma I.[1] He succeeded his father in office according to royal seal impressions found at Lidar Höyük in 1985 on the east bank of the Euphrates river. Kuzi-Teshub then styled himself as ...

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Marduk-Apla-Iddina I in Wikipedia

Marduk-apla-iddina I (Akkadian: "Marduk gave a son")[citation needed] was a Kassite king of Babylon ca. 1171–1159 BC (short chronology). He was the son and successor of Meli-Shipak II, from whom he had previously received lands, as recorded on a Kudurru...

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Nabu-Mukin-Zeri (Mukin-Zeri) in Wikipedia

Nabu-mukin-zeri (also known as "Ukinzir", Greek: "Chinzeros") was the King of Babylon 732-729 BC. He was an Aramean chief who seized the throne. The Assyrians tried to bring the people to rebel against him, but they were unsuccessful. He was killed during the Assyrian siege of Babylon. ....

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Mursili Iii in Wikipedia

Mursili III, also known as Urhi-Teshub, was the eldest surviving son of Muwatalli II. He assumed the throne of the Hittite empire (New kingdom) at Tarhuntassa as "Mursili" upon his father's death around 1272 BCE. The noted Hittologist Trevor Bryce erroneously credits this king with a reign of only 5 years and dates him at 1272 BC – 1267 BC[1] Howev...

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Nabu-Apla-Iddina in Wikipedia

Nabu-apla-iddina was a Babylonian king who reigned ca. 888 – 855 BC. His father was King Nabu-shuma-ukin. During much of Nabu-apla-iddina's reign Babylon faced a significant rival in Assyria under the rule of Ashurnasirpal II. Nabu-apla-iddina was able to avoid both outright war and significant loss of territory although there was some low level co...

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Mesha in Wikipedia

The books of Samuel record that Moab was conquered by David (floruit c.1000-970 BCE) and retained in the territories of his son Solomon (d. 931 BCE). Later, King Omri of Israel reconquered Moab after Moab was lost subsequent to King Solomon's reign. The Mesha Stele, erected by Mesha, indicates that it was Omri, king of the northern kingdom of Israe...

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Mushezib-Marduk in Wikipedia

Mushezib-Marduk (692 BC - 689 BC), Chaldean prince chosen as King of Babylon after Nergal-ushezib. He led the Babylonian populace in revolt against Assyria and King Sennacherib in 689 BC, with the support of Elam and King Humban-nimena (which was attacked by the Babylonians and the Assyrians only years before), at the Battle of Halule. It's not cl...

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Lipit-Eshtar in Wikipedia

Lipit-Ishtar (Lipit-Eshtar), was the fifth ruler of the first dynasty of Isin, and ruled from around 1934 BCE to 1924 BCE. Some documents and royal inscriptions from his time have survived, but he is mostly known because Sumerian language hymns written in his honor, as well as a legal code written in his name (preceding the famed Code of Hammurabi ...

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