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    Qatna (modern: Arabic: تل المشرفة, Tell al-Mishrifeh; also Tell Misrife or Tell Mishrifeh) was an ancient city located in Homs Governorate, Syria. Its...
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  • Jawan Mohammed Qatna was a Syrian Kurdish photographer, journalist and activist who was murdered on 26 March 2012. He died aged 22, and was later buried...
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  • The Royal Hypogeum of Qatna (tomb VI) is located beneath the northwest wing of the royal palace in Qatna (modern Syria). It was discovered at the depth...
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    Bronze IIA, the Beqa Valley was a highway between the regional power of Qatna in the north and its vassal Hazor in the south. The Beqaa valley was known...
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  • Adad-Nirari or H̱addu-Nirari, was a king of Qatna in the 14th century BC. Adad-Nirari is an Akkadian name. The king reigned for 45 years in the 14th century...
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  • of Mari in the 18th century BC as the headquarter of king Ishi-Addu of Qatna who took up residence there to oversee the quelling of a rebellion in the...
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    political marriage between Yasmah-Adad to Beltum, the princess of his ally in Qatna. Yasmah-Adad already had a leading wife and had put Beltum in a secondary...
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    vassals than Hammurabi of Babylon. Yamhad imposed its authority over Alalakh, Qatna, the Hurrians states and the Euphrates Valley down to the borders with Babylon...
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    the Middle Bronze, Parga/Barga was a contested city between Yamhad and Qatna near Hamath. Barga was a city-state in the Amarna letters period of 1350-1335...
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  • century BC. The Land of Nuḫašše was located southeast of Aleppo and north of Qatna. Originally part of the Mitanni Empire, Adad-Nirari engaged in a military...
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