Qatna (modern: Arabic: تل المشرفة, Tell al-Mishrifeh; also Tell Misrife or Tell Mishrifeh) was an ancient city located in Homs Governorate, Syria. Its...
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The Royal Hypogeum of Qatna (tomb VI) is located beneath the northwest wing of the royal palace in Qatna (modern Syria). It was discovered at the depth...
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Jawan Mohammed Qatna was a Syrian Kurdish photographer, journalist and activist who was murdered on 26 March 2012. He died aged 22, and was later buried...
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Bronze IIA, the Beqa Valley was a highway between the regional power of Qatna in the north and its vassal Hazor in the south. The Beqaa valley was known...
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of Mari in the 18th century BC as the headquarter of king Ishi-Addu of Qatna who took up residence there to oversee the quelling of a rebellion in the...
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the Middle Bronze, Parga/Barga was a contested city between Yamhad and Qatna near Hamath. Barga was a city-state in the Amarna letters period of 1350-1335...
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century BC. The Land of Nuḫašše was located southeast of Aleppo and north of Qatna. Originally part of the Mitanni Empire, Adad-Nirari engaged in a military...
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Adad-Nirari or H̱addu-Nirari, was a king of Qatna in the 14th century BC. Adad-Nirari is an Akkadian name. The king reigned for 45 years in the 14th century...
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vassals than Hammurabi of Babylon. Yamhad imposed its authority over Alalakh, Qatna, the Hurrians states and the Euphrates Valley down to the borders with Babylon...
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political marriage between Yasmah-Adad to Beltum, the princess of his ally in Qatna. Yasmah-Adad already had a leading wife and had put Beltum in a secondary...
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kingdom, Kingdom of Qatna, Ebla's Third Dynasty, Yamhad) and Mariote Kingdom, independent states c. 2000 BC–c. 1898 BC: Kingdom of Qatna and Mariote Kingdom...
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Orchomenos, Athens, Knossos, Alassa, Carchemish, Aleppo, Alalakh, Hama, Qatna, Kadesh, Tell Tweini, Byblos, Tyre, Sidon, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Beth-Shean...
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First Babylon Third Ebla Ekallatum Emar Kurda Third Mari Mukish Palmyra Qatna Shaddai Ṭābetu Kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia Yamhad Zahiran Amqu Aram Barga...
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Akkadian Empire Arameans Canaanites Middle Assyrian Empire Ebla Yamhad Qatna Mari Ugarit Aram-Damascus Syro-Hittite states Neo-Assyrian Empire Neo-Babylonian...
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as samples of preserved textiles found in gypsum at the Royal Palace of Qatna. The ancient method for mass-producing blue dye from Hexaplex trunculus...
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Ebla Mari Armi Hatti Dilmun Magan Nubia Berbers Akkad Assyria Babylonia Qatna Amurru Yamhad Urkesh Mitanni Hittites Phrygians Ugarit Canaan Phoenicia...
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adopting Egyptian style as opposed to the Syrian style dominated by Yamhad and Qatna. Abishemu is mainly known from the Abishemu obelisk found in the Temple...
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Ebla Mari Armi Hatti Dilmun Magan Nubia Berbers Akkad Assyria Babylonia Qatna Amurru Yamhad Urkesh Mitanni Hittites Phrygians Ugarit Canaan Phoenicia...
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First Babylon Third Ebla Ekallatum Emar Kurda Third Mari Mukish Palmyra Qatna Shaddai Ṭābetu Kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia Yamhad Zahiran Amqu Aram Barga...
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establishment, the kingdom withstood the aggressions of its neighbors Mari, Qatna and the Old Assyrian Empire, and was turned into the most powerful Syrian...
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as preserved textile samples discovered in gypsum at the Royal Palace of Qatna. As early as the 15th century BC, the citizens of Sidon and Tyre, two cities...
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from this period have been found in Jordan. Later, Egyptians conquered Qatna and Tunip where a statue of Ramses II was erected. Thus he recaptured Qadesh...
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First Babylon Third Ebla Ekallatum Emar Kurda Third Mari Mukish Palmyra Qatna Shaddai Ṭābetu Kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia Yamhad Zahiran Amqu Aram Barga...
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to Egypt for much of the period. In the north, the cities of Yamkhad and Qatna were hegemons of important confederacies, and it would appear that biblical...
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trade between the Kingdom of Qatna in the north and Kingdom of Hazor in the south. Hazor may have been subject to Qatna, meaning that the entire region...
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by the Amorite kingdoms, c. 2000–1600 BC, which arose in Mari, Yamhad, Qatna, and Assyria. From the 15th century BC onward, the term Amurru is usually...
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First Babylon Third Ebla Ekallatum Emar Kurda Third Mari Mukish Palmyra Qatna Shaddai Ṭābetu Kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia Yamhad Zahiran Amqu Aram Barga...
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"[e]ither Hammurabi with an unexplained suffix -el, or Amud-piʾel, king of Qatna, with the common misreading of the letter r for d; possibly a confusion...
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First Babylon Third Ebla Ekallatum Emar Kurda Third Mari Mukish Palmyra Qatna Shaddai Ṭābetu Kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia Yamhad Zahiran Amqu Aram Barga...
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First Babylon Third Ebla Ekallatum Emar Kurda Third Mari Mukish Palmyra Qatna Shaddai Ṭābetu Kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia Yamhad Zahiran Amqu Aram Barga...
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