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    Arrapha or Arrapkha (Akkadian: Arrapḫa; Arabic: أررابخا ,عرفة) was an ancient city in what today is northeastern Iraq, thought to be located at city of...
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  • The Battle of Arrapha took place in 616 BC between Assyrian forces against the Babylonians and Medes . Babylonian king Nabopolassar with the help of other...
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    has not yet been located with certainty. His other major sacred city was Arrapha, the capital of an eponymous kingdom located in the proximity of modern...
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    Barimma) Sumer (سومر) Tell Ubaid (تل عبيد) Ur (أور) Uruk (أوروك) Lubdu Arrapha (now Kirkuk) List of places in Iraq Districts of Iraq "Iraq cities". citypopulation...
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    Tepe, Iraq) was an ancient Mesopotamian city southwest of the city of Arrapha (modern Kirkuk), located near the Tigris river. The site consists of one...
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    coexistence in the country. The ancient name of Kirkuk was the Hurrian Arrapha During the Parthian era, a Korkura/Corcura (Ancient Greek: Κόρκυρα) is...
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  • city in ancient Mesopotamia. It was a provincial center located south of Arrapḫa, modern Kirkuk. The exact site is uncertain, but researchers have proposed...
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  • From north to south: Nineveh, Qattara (or Karana), Dūr-Katlimmu, Assur, Arrapha, Terqa, Nuzi, Mari, Eshnunna, Dur-Kurigalzu, Der, Sippar, Babylon, Kish...
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    field in Saudi Arabia in 1948. Baba Gurgur is 16 kilometres north-west of Arrapha and is famous for its Eternal Fire (Arabic: النار الازلية) at the middle...
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    homeland includes the ancient cities of Nineveh (Mosul), Nuhadra (Dohuk), Arrapha/Beth Garmai (Kirkuk), Al Qosh, Tesqopa and Arbela (Erbil) in Iraq, Urmia...
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    religious traditions are documented in sources from Hurrian kingdoms such as Arrapha, Kizzuwatna and Mitanni, as well as from cities with sizeable Hurrian populations...
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    Assyrian heartland into the empire, he secured the city of Arrapha (modern-day Kirkuk). Arrapha in later times served as the launching point of innumerable...
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    Archeological sites in the governorate include Arrapḫa, Nuzi and Lubdu, which all date back several thousand years. Arrapha is located within the modern city of...
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  • independence from the Assyrians. In 615 BC, the Medes and their allies conquered Arrapha. The next year, they besieged Assur. Much of what was left of the Assyrian...
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    his army into Assyria proper in 616 BC, and tried to besiege Assur and Arrapha (modern Kirkuk), but was defeated by Sin-shar-ishkun and chased back into...
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    King Cyaxares entered Assyria and conquered the region around the city of Arrapha. In July or August of 614 BC, the Medes began attacking the cities of Kalhu...
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    month, the Medes were active near Arrapha, which suggests a mutual arrangement between Medes and Babylonians. Since Arrapha was very close to the principal...
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    Munbāqa, Ekalte) Nimrud Emar (Tell Meskene) Tall Bazi (Baṣīru, Armanum?) Arrapha Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta Assur Ekallatum Nuzi (Yorghan Tepe, Gasur) Tell al-Fakhar...
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    Alalakh and Mari in Syria, to Nuzi, in antiquity a part of the kingdom of Arrapha in northeastern Iraq. His character was to a large degree based on his...
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    limited support. In 616 BC, the Babylonians defeated the Assyrian forces at Arrapha and pushed them back to the Little Zab. Nabopolassar failed to seize Assur...
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  • also went on to conquer cities to the north and east of Assur, such as Arrapha, Nineveh, Qabra and Erbil . The realm founded by Shamshi-Adad eventually...
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    Nineveh (the township of Yunus)), Qattara (or Karana), Dūr-Katlimmu, Assur, Arrapha, Terqa, Nuzi, Mari, Eshnunna, Dur-Kurigalzu, Der, Sippar, Babylon, Kish...
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    among others. Another major center of Hurrian influence was the kingdom of Arrapha. Excavations at Yorgan Tepe, ancient Nuzi, proved this to be one of the...
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    areas to the west and east of Mesopotamia, including the Hurrian kingdom Arrapha, Syrian Alalakh and Mari and Elam under the rule of the Sukkalmah Dynasty...
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    Eriba-Adad I (1390–1366 BC). The states of Aleppo in the west, and Nuzi and Arrapha in the east, seem to have been incorporated into Mitanni under Shaushtatar...
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    ancient Iranian tribe of Sagartians in the Assyrian cities of Arbela and Arrapha (modern Kirkuk), probably as a reward for their help in the capture of...
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    millennium BCE and to Šauška as known from sources from the Hurrian kingdom of Arrapha as one and the same. It is assumed that Ishtar references in documents...
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  • Ipiq-Adad II massively enlarged his state starting in 1828 BC when he took Arrapha to the north. Then, to consolidate the Diyala region, he defeated Sin-abushu...
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    Fall and Rise of Jerusalem: Judah Under Babylonian Rule "the Medes left Arrapha, attacked Kalhu (Nimrud) and Ninuwa (Nineveh), and continued rapidly northward...
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    king Cyaxares entered Assyria and conquered the region around the city of Arrapha in preparation for a campaign against Sinsharishkun. Although there are...
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