Bit Agusi
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Was a Syro-Hittite state (Luwian-, Aramaic- and Phoenician-speaking political entities in northern Syria and southern Anatolia that emerged after the collapse of the Hittite Empire).
Establishment
- January 899 BC: Bit Agusi was established by Gusi of Yakhan at the beginning of the 9th century BC.
Chronology
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1. Campaigns of Ashurnasirpal II
Military campaigns of Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II.
- January 869 BC: Khazazu (modern-day Azaz) was invaded by Assyria around 870 BC.
2. Campaigns of Zim-ri-Lim
Military campaigns of Mariote king Zim-ri-Lim.
- January 742 BC: In 743 BC, during the Urartu-Assyria War, the Neo-Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser III laid siege to Arpad following the defeat of the Urartian army of Sarduri II at Samsat. But the city of Arpad did not surrender easily. It took Tiglath-Pileser three years of siege to conquer Arpad, whereupon he massacred its inhabitants and destroyed the city. Afterward Arpad served a provincial capital.
Disestablishment
- January 742 BC: In 743 BC, during the Urartu-Assyria War, the Neo-Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser III laid siege to Arpad following the defeat of the Urartian army of Sarduri II at Samsat. But the city of Arpad did not surrender easily. It took Tiglath-Pileser three years of siege to conquer Arpad, whereupon he massacred its inhabitants and destroyed the city. Afterward Arpad served a provincial capital.