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Shamshi-Adad (Akkadian: Šamši-Adad; Amorite: Shamshi-Addu), ruled c. 1808–1776 BC, was an Amorite warlord and conqueror who had conquered lands across much of Syria, Anatolia, and Upper Mesopotamia.
Forced to flee to Babylonia, Shamshi-Adad V (823–811) finally managed to regain the kingship with the help of Marduk-zakir-shumi I under humiliating conditions. As king he campaigned with varying success in southern Armenia and Azerbaijan, later turning against Babylonia.…
Shamshi-Adad may refer to: Shamshi-Adad I, (fl. late 18th century BC (short chronology) was an ancient Near East king. Shamshi-Adad II, an Old Assyrian king who ruled in the mid-second millennium, ca. 1585-1580 BC (short chronology).
Shamshi-Adad I seized the opportunity and occupied Mari c. 1795 BC. He placed his sons (Ishme-Dagan I and Yasmah-Adad) in key geographical locations and gave them responsibility to look over those areas. Shamshi-Adad I put his eldest son (Ishme-Dagan I) on the throne of Ekallatum, while Shamshi-Adad I remained in Šubat-Enlil]].
In this episode, we take a look at Shamshi-Adad, the first real great king of Assyria, Shamshi-Adad I as well as the relationship he had with his sons and th...
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When Shamshi-Adad boasts of having erected triumphal stelae on the Mediterranean coast, in the Lebanon, it can have been only upon one of those short-lived expeditions, more economic than military, in the tradition established by Sargon of Agade years before.
Jun 5, 2020 · With Shamshi-Adad of Assur and Hammurabi of Babylon, the author draws the attention to two ambitious and military-skilled rulers of 19th c. BCE Mesopotamia. Both of them established control over northern and southern Mesopotamia after periods of sustained...
