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  • 200px|EA 161, letter by Aziru, leader of the Amurru (Amorites), one of the Amarna letters]] The Amarna letters (sometimes "Amarna tablets ...
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  • of the Amorites." The ethnic terms Amurru and Amar were used for them ... Amorites worshiped, among others, the moon-god Sin, and Amurru, from ...
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  • indigenous Hurrian and Amoritic-speaking (Amurru) populations. ... city-states in upper Mesopotamia with both Amurru (Amorite) and Hurrian names ...
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  • was governor of the land of the Amorites, or Amurru as the semi-nomadic people of Syria and Canaan were called in Akkadian. It is probable that the ...
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  • defeat" and abandon the border provinces of Amurru and Upi to the control of his Hittite rival without the benefit of a formal truce. (Tyldesley ...
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  • | 1260 - 1235 B.C.E.|| Contemporary of Bentisina of Amurru, Son of Niqmepa |- | Ibiranu || 1235 - 1220 B.C.E.|| |- | Niqmaddu III || 1220 - 1215 ...
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  • Adad | Amurru | An/Anu | Anshar | Asshur | Abzu/Apsu | Enki/Ea | Enlil | Ereshkigal | Inanna/Ishtar | Kingu | Kishar | Lahmu & Lahamu | Marduk ...
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  • quot;), one of the names of the Amorite god Amurru. Shaddai was also a late Bronze Age Amorite city on the banks of the Euphrates river, in northern ...
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  • Adad | Amurru | An/Anu | Anshar | Asshur | Abzu/Apsu | Enki/Ea | Enlil | Ereshkigal | Inanna/Ishtar | Kingu | Kishar | Lahmu & Lahamu | Marduk ...
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  • in the area called Canaan and worshipped the god Amurru. From Mount Nebo in western Jordan, many people believe that Moses saw the Promised Land (c ...
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  • having been part of the ancient province of Amurru in the Hyksos Kingdom, from 1720 to 1570 B.C.E. According to the Amarna letters, Damascus was ruled ...
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