Amurru Kingdom
This article is about the specific polity Amurru Kingdom and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.
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Was an Amorite kingdom established c. 2000 BC, in a region spanning present-day western and north-western Syria and northern Lebanon.
Establishment
January 1999 BC: Amurru was an Amorite kingdom established c. 2000 BC, in a region spanning present-day western and north-western Syria and northern Lebanon.
January 1999 BC: The Kingdom of Qatna was established around 2000 BC.
January 1999 BC: In the Middle and Late Bronze Age, Nuḫašše referred to a region in the north of present-day Syria east of the Orontes. The area does not appear to have been a unified kingdom but rather a federation of various small principalities.
Chronology
Interactive Chronologies with maps are available in the section Changes Navigation
Disestablishment
January 1809 BC: Yamhad, an ancient Semitic kingdom centered on Ḥalab (today Aleppo, Syria), emerged at the end of the 19th century BC.
Selected Sources
Al-Maqdissi, Michel (2010). "Matériel pour l'Étude de la Ville en Syrie (Deuxième Partie): Urban Planning in Syria during the SUR (Second Urban Revolution) (Mid-third Millennium BC)". Al-Rāfidān (Journal of Western Asiatic Studies). Special Issue. Institulte for Cultural studies of Ancient Iraq, Kokushikan University. ISSN 0285-4406. p. 140
Douglas Frayne (1 January 1990). Old Babylonian Period (2003-1595 BC). University of Toronto Press. p. 780
Singer, I. (1991). "The "Land of Amurru" and the "Lands of Amurru" in the Šaušgamuwa Treaty". Iraq. 53: 69–74. doi:10.2307/4200336. JSTOR 4200336. S2CID 131582702.
Torrecilla, E. (2022). 2022 - Reflections on the Qaṭna Letters TT1-5 (I): Hittite Expansionism and the Syrian Kingdoms. Aula Orientalis 40.
