killing the king himself. After this battle, Ur-Nammu seems to have earned the title 'king of Sumer and Akkad.' Ur's dominance over the Neo-Sumerian Empire...
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History of Sumer The history of Sumer spans the 5th to 3rd millennia BCE in southern Mesopotamia, and is taken to include the prehistoric Ubaid and Uruk...
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southern Mesopotamia, could be western variants of Sumer. Most historians have suggested that Sumer was first permanently settled between c. 5500 – c. 3300...
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first dynasty of Ur (abbreviated Ur I) was a dynasty of rulers from the city of Ur in ancient Sumer who reigned c. 2600 – c. 2340 BC. Ur I is part of the...
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the titles of "King of Ur, and King of Sumer and Akkad". His personal goddess was Ninsuna. According to the Sumerian King List, Ur-Nammu reigned for 18...
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The lament for Sumer and Urim or the lament for Sumer and Ur is a poem and one of five known Mesopotamian "city laments"—dirges for ruined cities in the...
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King of Ur", used by kings Lugal-kinishe-dudu and Lugal-kisalsi (both c. 2400 BC). Before the creation of titles like King of Sumer, King of Sumer and Akkad...
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Cemetery at Ur. The Sumerian King List provides a tentative political history of ancient Sumer and mentions, among others, several rulers of Ur. Mesannepada...
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Shulgi (redirect from Shulgi of ur)
of the Great Ziggurat of Ur, begun by his father Ur-Nammu. On his inscriptions, he took the titles "King of Ur", "King of Sumer and Akkad", adding "King...
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Gutian rule in Mesopotamia (redirect from Gutian dynasty of Sumer)
who carried off the kingship of the land of Sumer to the mountain land, who fi[ll]ed the land of Sumer with wickedness, who took away the wife from the...
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