Assyria, Limmu was an Assyrian eponym (a person after whom something is named). At the beginning of the reign of an Assyrian king, the limmu, an appointed...

Limmu Kosa is one of the Districts in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. It is named in part after the former kingdom of Limmu-Ennarea, whose territories included...

Limmu Sakka is one of the woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. It is named in part after the former kingdom of Limmu-Ennarea, whose territories included...

The Kingdom of Limmu-Ennarea was one of the kingdoms in the Gibe region of Ethiopia that emerged in the 19th century. It shared its eastern border with...

Limmu is a woreda in Oromia Region, Ethiopia. Part of the East Welega Zone, Limmu is bordered on the south by an exclave of the Benishangul-Gumuz Region...

Limmu Inariya (Officially known as Limmu Inariya and formerly as Limu Suntu) is a town in southern Ethiopia. Located in the Jimma Zone of the Oromia Region...

Haro Limmu is one of the woreda/ Districts in the East Wollegga zone Oromia Region of Ethiopia. It is part of the East Welega Zone. It was separated from...

(alternately, he reigned from 1182 to 1180 BC). There are up to eleven possible limmu officials named for his regnal years and a recent publication proposes the...

appointed limmu (eponym) was introduced. The Assyrian King List observes of his immediate predecessors, “in all six kings known from bricks, whose limmu have...

Diga Gida Kiremu Gobu Seyo Gudeya Bila Guto Gida Haro Limmu Ibantu Jimma Arjo Leka Dulecha Limmu Naqamte Nunu Kumba Sasiga Sibu Sire Wama Hagalo Wayu Tuka...

Ethiopia that emerged in the 18th century. It shared its western border with Limmu-Ennarea, its eastern border with the Sidamo Kingdom of Janjero, and was...

biblical Calah/Nimrud). He was succeeded by his son Tukulti-Ninurta I. Annual limmu officials beginning with the year of accession of Šulmanu-ašared. The list...

the limmu for the year, which meant that he would preside over the Akitu festival and the year would bear his name. The earliest attested limmu eponyms...

thousand years. Every year was associated with the name, an eponym, of the Limmu, the official who led that year's New Year festival. The dating system is...

Look up limu or limmu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Limu or Limmu may refer to: Limmu (woreda), an area in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia Limu, Estonia...

c.1800 Ennarea conquered by the Macha Oromo, who founded the Kingdom of Limmu-Ennarea 1800 to 1825 Bofo, Supera (Abba Gomoli I) 1825 to 24 September 1861...

known about Sargon I. The following is a list of the 41 annually-elected limmu officials from the year of accession of Sargon I until the year of his death...

millennium BC, when the Assyrians named each year after a high official (limmu). In ancient Greece, the eponymous archon was the highest magistrate in...

Nineveh eclipse – a short text found in an Assyrian list of royal officials (limmū) which says the following: "Bur-Sagale of Guzana, revolt in the city of...

Saqqa (also known as Limmu Saqqa) is a town in south-western Ethiopia, and capital of the former Kingdom of Limmu-Ennarea. Located in the Jimma Zone of...

Tzolk'in Haab' Regnal year Anka year Canon of Kings English and British regnal year Lists of kings Limmu Era names Chinese Japanese Korean Vietnamese...

Kercheche Kobo Kombolcha Konso Korem Kula Kulubi Kurmuk Lalibela Lefe Isa Limmu Inariya Maimekden (May Mekdan) Majete Maji Manbuk Maqora Masha Maychew Mega...

daughter of the King of Limmu-Ennarea; Queen Minjo, the daughter of the King of Kaffa; and Queen Sapertiti, also from Limmu-Ennarea. During Abba Jifar...

Tzolk'in Haab' Regnal year Anka year Canon of Kings English and British regnal year Lists of kings Limmu Era names Chinese Japanese Korean Vietnamese...

period onward, a yearly office-holder, a limmu official, was elected from the influential men of Assyria. The limmu official gave their name to the year,...

Tzolk'in Haab' Regnal year Anka year Canon of Kings English and British regnal year Lists of kings Limmu Era names Chinese Japanese Korean Vietnamese...

Tzolk'in Haab' Regnal year Anka year Canon of Kings English and British regnal year Lists of kings Limmu Era names Chinese Japanese Korean Vietnamese...

at the site of excavations of Ḫattuša in the 1930s. It was dated to the limmu year of Ilī-padâ, in the latter part of Tukulti-Ninurta's reign. In it,...

positions of the planets and stars. This continued to Assyrian times, when Limmu lists were created as a year by year association of events with planetary...

Tzolk'in Haab' Regnal year Anka year Canon of Kings English and British regnal year Lists of kings Limmu Era names Chinese Japanese Korean Vietnamese...