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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    Dynasty around 1850 BC. She is known from the statue of a sphinx found in Qatna in modern Syria. The statue is today in the Louvre (AO 14075). On this statue...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Trophies won 1 Ahmed Al-Joker 1960 1962 2 Ahmed Abdullah 1962 1965 3 Lamaat Qatna 1966 1967 4 Abdulmajid Tarnah 1967 1969 5 Hassan Sultan 1969 1970 6 Zaki...
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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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    Orchomenos, Athens, Knossos, Alassa, Carchemish, Aleppo, Alalakh, Hama, Qatna, Kadesh, Tell Tweini, Byblos, Tyre, Sidon, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Beth-Shean...
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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 Ṭābetu Kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia Yamhad Amqu Aram Barga Canaanite city-states...
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    First Babylon Third Ebla Ekallatum Emar Kurda Third Mari Mukish Palmyra Qatna Ṭābetu Kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia Yamhad Amqu Aram Barga Canaanite city-states...
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    First Babylon Third Ebla Ekallatum Emar Kurda Third Mari Mukish Palmyra Qatna Ṭābetu Kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia Yamhad Amqu Aram Barga Canaanite city-states...
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    spectroscopic investigation. The quantity of amber in the Royal Tomb of Qatna, Syria, is unparalleled among known second millennium BC sites in the Levant...
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  • Mesoptamia. In the Levant, Amorite dynasties ruled various kingdoms of Qatna, Ebla and Yamhad, which also had a significant Hurrian population. Mari...
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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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  • "[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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  • 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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    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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    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 Ṭābetu Kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia Yamhad Amqu Aram Barga Canaanite city-states...
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    First Babylon Third Ebla Ekallatum Emar Kurda Third Mari Mukish Palmyra Qatna Ṭābetu Kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia Yamhad Amqu Aram Barga Canaanite city-states...
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    culture Ancient history Kish Ebla Armi Mari Nagar Akkadian Empire Amorites Qatna Amurru Yamhad Ugarit Urkesh Mitanni Canaanites Phoenicia Tyre Carthage Hittites...
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    less permanent border between Egypt and Mitanni seems to have existed near Qatna on the Orontes River; Ugarit was part of Egyptian territory. The reason...
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