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Anitta in Wikipedia

Anitta, son of Pithana, was a king of Kussara, a city that has yet to be identified. He is the earliest known ruler to compose a text in the Hittite language. Anitta reigned in the 17th century BC (short chronology) and is the author of the Anitta text (CTH 1.A, edited in StBoT 18, 1974)[1], the oldest known text in the Hittite language (and the o...

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Apries in Wikipedia

Apries (Απριης) is the name by which Herodotus (ii. 161) and Diodorus (i. 68) designate Wahibre Haaibre, Ουαφρης (Pharaoh-Hophra), a pharaoh of Egypt (589 BC - 570 BC), the fourth king (counting from Psamtik I) of the Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt. He was equated with the Waphres of Manetho, who correctly records that he reigned for 19 years. Aprie...

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Arnuwanda Ii in Wikipedia

Arnuwanda II was a king of the Hittite Empire (new kingdom) ca. 1322–1321 BC (short chronology). He succeeded his father Suppiluliuma I, who succumbed to the plague which Egyptian captives from his Canaan campaign had brought with them to the Hittite heartland. Later Hittite documents reveal that Arnuwanda had also caught this plague. His younger ...

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Ammishtamru I in Wikipedia

Ammittamru I was the first ruler and king of the Ancient Syrian city of Ugarit who ruled ca. 1350 BC....

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Arnuwanda Iii in Wikipedia

Arnuwanda III was the penultimate king of the Hittite empire (New kingdom) (ca. 1209–1207 BC (short chronology)) and a son of Tudhaliya IV....

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Alyattes in Wikipedia

Alyattes may refer to: * Alyattes I, king of Lydia (ca. 740 BC) * Alyattes II, king of Lydia, (619-560 BC)...

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Ammuna in Wikipedia

Ammunu was King of the Hittites ca. 1486–1466 BC (short chronology). He was the son of Hantili. His successor, Huzziya I, may have been his son....

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Antiochus I Soter in Wikipedia

This article is about the Seleucid King of the third century BC. For the king of Commagene of the first century BC, see Antiochus I Theos of Commagene. Antiochus I Soter (Greek: Αντίοχος Α' Σωτήρ, i.e. Antiochus the Savior, unknown - 261 BC), was a king of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire. He reigned from 281 BC - 261 BC. Antiochus I was half Pers...

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Arakha (=Nebuchadnezzar Iv) in Wikipedia

Nebuchadnezzar IV, also known as Arakha, was the last king of Babylon. In 529 BC, with the disturbances that occurred after the death of Cambyses II and the proclamation of Bardiya as King, the Armenians revolted. Darius I of Persia sent an Armenian named Dâdarši to suffocate the revolt, later substituting him for the Persian Vaumisa who defeated ...

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Antiochus II in Wikipedia

Antiochus II Theos (Greek: Αντίοχος Β' Θεός, 286 BC–246 BC), was a king of the Hellenistic Seleucid Kingdom who reigned 261 BC–246 BC). He succeeded his father Antiochus I Soter in the winter of 262-61 BC. He was the younger son of Antiochus I and princess Stratonice, the daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes. He inherited a state of war with Egypt, t...

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