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Name: Kingdom of Carchemish

Type: Polity

Start: 1799 BC

End: 849 BC

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Was a Syro-Hittite state (Luwian-, Aramaic- and Phoenician-speaking political entities in northern Syria and southern Anatolia that emerged after the collapse of the Hittite Empire).

Establishment


  • January 1799 BC: From c. 1800 BC, Carchemish was ruled by a king named Aplahanda and was an important center of timber trade.
  • Chronology


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    1. Campaigns of Ashurnasirpal II


    Military campaigns of Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II.

  • January 869 BC: Khazazu (modern-day Azaz) was invaded by Assyria around 870 BC.

  • 2. Campaigns of Shalmaneser III


    Military campaigns of Assyrian king Shalmaneser III.

  • January 848 BC: Shalmaneser took the neo Hittite state of Carchemish in 849 BC.

  • 3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 1751 BC: Territorial acquisitions of Yamhad until 1752 BC.

  • January 1329 BC: The kingdom of Mitanni subsisted until about 1330 BC. Around that time or shortly after it was conquered by Piyasilis I Carchemish.

  • January 1274 BC: Assyrian ruler Adad-nirari I continued expansion to the northwest, mainly at the expense of the Hittites and Hurrians, conquering Carchemish before the end of his reign.

  • January 1174 BC: While the Hittite empire fell to the Sea Peoples during the Bronze Age collapse, Carchemish survived the Sea Peoples' attacks to continue to be the capital of an important Neo-Hittite kingdom in the Iron Age, and a trading center. This powerful polity lasted from c.1175 BC.

  • January 999 BC: Shugab was an Aramaic state that existed in the 10th century BC that stretched across the Euphrates.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 848 BC: Shalmaneser took the neo Hittite state of Carchemish in 849 BC.
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