Kingdom of Qatna
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The Kingdom of Qatna was established around 2000 BC in modern-day Syria.
Establishment
January 1999 BC: The Kingdom of Qatna was established around 2000 BC.
Chronology
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Military campaigns of Mariote king Zim-ri-Lim.
January 1769 BC: Conquests of Mariote King Zim-ri-Lim.
Military campaigns of Hittite King Hattusili I.
January 1650 BC: Labarna founded the Hittite Kingdom ca. 1650 BC. He renamed himself Hattusili I (meaning "the man of Hattusa") and established his capital city at Hattusa.
Military campaigns of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ahmose I.
January 1549 BC: Pharaoh Ahmose I reasserted Egyptian power in Canaan.
3.1.Punitive Expedition in Canaan
Military campaign of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ahmose I in Canaan.
January 1526 BC: Ahmose I began a military expedition in Syria and Nubia during his 22nd year of reign. He reached Djahy in the Levant and perhaps as far as the Euphrates. Ahmose did reach at least as far as Kedem (thought to be near Byblos), according to an ostracon in the tomb of his wife, Ahmose-Nefertari.
February 1526 BC: Ahmose I started a military expedition in Syria and Nubia during his 22nd year of reign. At the end of the expedition the Pharaoh left most of the territories.
Military campaigns of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose I.
January 1504 BC: Syrian campaign of Thutmose I at the beginning of his second regnal year. During this campaign, the Syrian princes declared allegiance to Thutmose.
January 1503 BC: After Thutmose I returned in Egypt, the Syrian vassals of Egypt discontinued tribute and began fortifying against future incursions.
Military campaigns of Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose II.
5.1.Syrian Campaigns of Thutmose III
Were the military campaigns of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III in Syria.
5.1.1.First Syria Campaign
Military campaign of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III in Syria.
January 1456 BC: The Battle of Megiddo was fought between Egyptian forces under the command of Pharaoh Thutmose III and a large rebellious coalition of Canaanite vassal states led by the king of Kadesh. Egyptian dominance in the Levant was re-established
January 1809 BC: Yamhad, an ancient Semitic kingdom centered on Ḥalab (today Aleppo, Syria), emerged at the end of the 19th century BC.
January 1764 BC: Hazor, Qatna's vassal, was conquered by Yamhad.
January 1399 BC: Expansion of Mitanni until 1400 BC.
January 1399 BC: The first documented leader of Amurru was Abdi-Ashirta, under whose leadership Amurru was a vassal of the Egyptian empire.
Disestablishment
January 1321 BC: Qatna comes under Hittite domination when Suppiluliuma I seized Syria.
Selected Sources
Cline, Eric H. (2021). "Of Arms and the Man". 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed. Princeton University Press. p. 32
Cline, Eric H. (May 2002). The Battles of Armageddon: Megiddo and the Jezreel Valley from the Bronze Age to the Nuclear Age. University of Michigan Press. Pp. 16-22
Douglas Frayne (1 January 1990). Old Babylonian Period (2003-1595 BC). University of Toronto Press. p. 780
George Steindorff and Keith C. Seele (1942): When Egypt ruled the East, University of Chicago Press, p. 35
George Steindorff and Keith C. Seele (1942): When Egypt ruled the East, University of Chicago Press, p. 36
Grimal, Nicolas (1992). A History of Ancient Egypt. Translated by Ian Shaw. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 978-0-631-19396-8. p. 192
Near East 1400 BCE. Wikipedia. Retrieved on 1 April 2024 on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Near_East_1400_BCE.png
Weinstein, J. M. (1981): The Egyptian Empire in Palestine: A Reassessment, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research nr. 241, p.7
