Polity Nuḫašše

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In the Middle and Late Bronze Age, Nuḫašše was a federation of various small principalities located north of present-day Syria.

Establishment

  • January 1999 BC: In the Middle and Late Bronze Age, Nuḫašše referred to a region in the north of present-day Syria east of the Orontes. The area does not appear to have been a unified kingdom but rather a federation of various small principalities.

Chronology

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Disestablishment

  • January 1809 BC: Yamhad, an ancient Semitic kingdom centered on Ḥalab (today Aleppo, Syria), emerged at the end of the 19th century BC.

Selected Sources

  • Douglas Frayne (1 January 1990). Old Babylonian Period (2003-1595 BC). University of Toronto Press. p. 780
  • Torrecilla, E. (2022). 2022 - Reflections on the Qaṭna Letters TT1-5 (I): Hittite Expansionism and the Syrian Kingdoms. Aula Orientalis 40.