Nagar

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Was a city-state in Syria. Around c. 2600 BC, a large administrative building was built and the city expanded.

Establishment

January 2599 BC: Nagar was an ancient city in Syria from around 2600 BC.

Chronology

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1. Lugal-Anne-Mundu´s Campaign on Ur

Was the military compaign against Ur of Lugal-Anne-Mundu, king of the city-state of Adab in Sumer.

January 2499 BC: Lugal-Anne-Mundu (king of the city-state of Adab in Sumer) subjugated the "Four Quarters of the world" (the entire Fertile Crescent region, from the Mediterranean to the Zagros Mountains). His empire is said to have included the provinces of Elam, Marhashi, Gutium, Subartu, the "Cedar Mountain land" (Lebanon), Amurru or Martu, "Sutium" and the "Mountain of E-anna".

2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

January 2499 BC: By around 2500 BC a medium sized independent city-state centered at Nagar had developed.

January 2379 BC: At the time of King Iblul-Il, the Mariote Kingdom expanded greatly through military campaigns.

January 2339 BC: The first Eblaite Kingdom at ist heigth (c. 2340 BC) extended from Urshu in the north, to Damascus area in the south. And from Phoenicia and the coastal mountains in the west, to Tuttul, and Haddu in the east.

Disestablishment

January 2299 BC: Nagar was destroyed ca.2300 BC.

Selected Sources

Cyrus Herzl Gordon, Gary Rendsburg, Nathan H. Winter (1987): Eblaitica: Essays on the Ebla Archives and Eblaite Language, Eisenbrauns, pp. 101-107

Diane Bolger, Louise C. Maguire (2010): The Development of Pre-State Communities in the Ancient Near East: Studies in Honour of Edgar Peltenburg, Oxbow Books, Cap. 11

Gordon Douglas Young (1981): Ugarit in Retrospect: Fifty Years of Ugarit and Ugaritic, Eisenbrauns, p.4

Joachim Bretschneider, "Nabada: The Buried City", Scientific American, vol. 283, pp. 74–81, 2000

Jonathan N. Tubb (1998): Canaanites, University of Oklahoma Press, p. 39

Maria Eugenia Aubet (2001): The Phoenicians and the West: Politics, Colonies and Trade, Cambridge University Press, p. 18

RIME 1.01.08.01 composite (P450160). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. Retrieved on 29 March 2024 on https://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/search?layout=full&id=P450160

William J. Hamblin (2006). Warfare in the Ancient Near East to 1600 BC. pp. 241-243.