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Shalmaneser I
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Shalmaneser I , d. 1290 BC, king of Assyria...c.18 mi (29 km) S of Nineveh. Shalmaneser III, 859-824 BC, son of Ashurnasirpal...Jehu of Judah. The black obelisk of Shalmaneser III, found at Calah and now in the...
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Assyria
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...he could have more control over the empire. Shalmaneser III (see under Shalmaneser I ) attempted to continue this policy, but...describes the expeditions and conquests of Shalmaneser III. Raids from Urartu were resumed and grew...
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Ahab
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...neighbor to the south. Ahab's prestige is seen in Assyrian inscriptions mentioning his alliance against Shalmaneser III (see Shalmaneser I ), who won an indecisive victory (c.854 BC) at Karkar on the Orontes. After this campaign Ahab and...
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Urartu
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...in the 8th cent. BC, when it ruled over most of N Syria. The Urartians constantly fought with Assyria ; Shalmaneser I, Shalmaneser III, and Sargon all attacked Urartu but never completely subdued it. In the 7th cent. BC repeated invasions...
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Sargon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sargon d. 705 BC, king of Assyria (722-705 BC), successor to Shalmaneser V. He completed Shalmaneser's siege of Samaria in 721 BC, thus destroying the northern Israelite kingdom forever. In 720 he...
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Calah
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Also discovered were the palaces of Ashurnasirpal II, Shalmaneser III, and Tiglathpileser III. Calah continued to be a royal...became the political capital. The famous black obelisk of Shalmaneser III was discovered in Calah by A. H. Layard in 1846.
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Sargon II
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...illustrious founder of the Akkadian dynasty, who had died 1,600 years before. This name and the fact that his predecessor, Shalmaneser V, reigned very briefly suggest that Sargon may have been a usurper. His first task was to restore order and overcome opposition...
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Sennacherib
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...British Museum, consult C. J. Gadd, The Stones of Assyria (1936) and Assyrian Sculptures in the British Museum, from Shalmaneser III to Sennacherib (1938). See also T. Jacobsen and S. Lloyd, Sennacherib's Aqueduct at Jerwan (1935). □...
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lost tribes
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...lost tribes 10 Israelite tribes that, according to the Bible, were transported to Assyria by Tiglathpileser III or Shalmaneser after the conquest of Israel in 722 BC Numerous conjectures have been advanced as to the fate of these tribes: they...
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Samaria
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...of central Palestine. It was built as the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel in the 9th century bc . Conquered by Shalmaneser in 722–721 bc, Samaria was later destroyed by John Hyrcanus I and rebuilt by Herod the Great . See also Samaritans
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