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Abdi-Milkutti in Wikipedia

Abdi-Milkutti (=Abdi-milki) was a Sidonian king (reigned c.680-677 BC) who rose up against Assyrian rule. In response to the rebellion, the Assyrian king Esarhaddon laid siege to the city, which after three years of siege, in 677 BC, was finally captured, destroyed and rebuilt as Kar-Ashur-aha-iddina, the Harbor of Esarhaddon. The Sidonian king was...

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Adad-Nirari Ii in Wikipedia

Adad-nirari II is generally considered to be the first King of Assyria in the Neo-Assyrian period. Family Adad-nirari II's father was Ashur-dan II, whom he succeeded. Adad-nirari II's son was named Tukulti-Ninurta II and Tukulti continued to wage war against Assyrian enemies.[1]. [edit] Reign He reigned from 911[2] to 891 BC. [edit] Dating Sign...

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Alexander The Great in Wikipedia

Alexander III of Macedon (356–323 BC), popularly known as Alexander the Great (Greek: Μέγας Ἀλέξανδρος, Mégas Aléxandros), was a Greeki[›] king (basileus) of Macedon. He is the most celebrated member of the Argead Dynasty and created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Born in Pella in 356 BC, Alexander was tutored by the famed philosoph...

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Abi-Esuh in Wikipedia

Abi-Eshuh was a king of Babylon who reigned from 1711-1684 BC. He was preceded by Samsu-iluna....

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Aba-Enlil-dana on BookRags

(Aramean Ahiqar) High official under SENNACHERIB and ESARHADDON (7th century). Under his Aramean name, Ahiqar, he became famous as the author of a series of wisdom texts written in Aramaic. Grayson 1991, in CAH III/2:132. Who’s Who in the Ancient Near East. © 2009 Taylor and Francis....

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Abi-Milki in Wikipedia

Abi-Milku was the only mayor/ruler of Tyre, Lebanon (called Surru in the letters), during the period of the Amarna letters correspondence (1350-1335 BC). He is the author of ten letters (to the pharaoh), EA 146-155 (EA for 'el Amarna'). He is not referenced by name, in any other letters of the 382–letter corpus....

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Adad-Nirari Iii in Wikipedia

Adad-nirari III (also Adad-narari) was King of Assyria from 811 to 783 BC. He was the son and successor of Shamshi-Adad V, and was apparently quite young at the time of his accession, because for the first five years of his reign his mother Shammuramat acted as regent, which may have given rise to the legend of Semiramis. Adad-nirari's youth, and ...

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Adasi in Wikipedia

Adasi is a small village in Gondia district, Maharashtra state, India.[1]...

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Ahiqar in Wikipedia

Ahiqar or Ahikar was an Assyrian sage known in the ancient Near East for his outstanding wisdom. The Story of Ahikar, also known as the Words of Ahikar, has been found in an Aramaic papyrus of 500 B.C. among the ruins of Elephantine. The narrative of the initial part of the story is expanded greatly by the presence of a large number of wise saying...

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Abiba’Al in Wikipedia

Abibaal (Phoenican and Hebrew Baal is my father) was a king of Tyre in the 10th century BC, father of the famous Hiram I. The only information known about him is derived from two passages in Josephus's Against Apion, i.17 and i.18.[1] All that is said in these passages is that he preceded his son Hiram on the throne of Tyre. Neither his length of r...

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