Assur
This article is about the specific polity Assur and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.
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Was a Mesopotamian city-state in actual Iraq. It was the nucleus of the later Assyrian Empire.
Establishment
- January 2449 BC: Rise of Assur to the status of city-state. The earliest known King of the Assyrian Early Period according to the Assyrian King List was Tudiya who ruled from about 2450 BC.
Chronology
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1. Conquest of Sumer by Sargon of Akkad
The military campaign of Sargon of Akkad resulted in the conquest of most of the Sumerian polities. Sargon's state is sometimes identified as the first empire in recorded history.
- January 2299 BC: At about 2300 BC, Assur was conquered by Sargon of Akkad.
2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)
- January 2153 BC: Between about 2154 BC and 2112 BC, Assyria was again an independent territory.
Disestablishment
- January 2111 BC: The Neo-Sumerian Empire (about 2112 BC to 2004 BC) ruled Assyria as far north as Assur (but not Nineveh).