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Name: Urkesh

Type: Polity

Start: 2299 BC

End: 2000 BC

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The recently arrived Hurrians founded the small state of Urkesh in northeastern Syria.

Establishment


  • January 2299 BC: The Hurrians founded the small Kingdom of Urkesh. The Hurrians were a population that inhabited the Ancient Near East during the Bronze Age.
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    Disestablishment


  • January 1999 BC: During the early second millennium BC the city of Urkesh passed into the hands of the rulers of Mari.
  • Selected Sources


  • Bryce, Trevor (2009). The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia: The Near East from the Early Bronze Age to the Fall of the Persian Empire. Routledge. Pp.135, 329, 492, 752-753
  • Marilyn Kelly- Buccellati. Andirons at Urkesh: New Evidence for the Hurrian Identity of the Early Trans-Caucasian Culture. (2004)
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