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Assyrian continuity

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Assyrian continuity is the claim by modern Assyrians and supporting academics that they are at root the direct descendants of the Semitic inhabitants who spoke originally Akkadian and later Imperial Aramaic of ancient Assyria and its immediate surrounds. [1]

68 relations: Abazu (Assyrian king), Adamu (Assyrian king), Akiya (Assyrian king), Aminu (Assyrian king), Apiashal, Arab Christians, Aramaic studies, Asōristān, Assyria, Assyrian calendar, Assyrian Evangelical Church, Assyrian homeland, Assyrian Pentecostal Church, Assyrian people, Assyrian–Chaldean–Syriac diaspora, Assyrians in Iraq, Assyrians in Syria, Assyriology, Azarah, Babylonia, Belu (Assyrian king), Beth Nahrain, Catholicos, Chaldea, Chaldean Catholic Church, Chaldean Catholics, Christianity in the Middle East, Dawronoye, Didanu, Early Period (Assyria), Erbil, Erishum I, Hale (Assyrian king), Hana (Assyrian king), Harharu, Harsu, Hayani, History of the Assyrian people, Hormuzd Rassam, Ila-kabkabu, Ilu-Mer, Ilu-shuma, Imsu, Ishme-Dagan I, Kikkia, Mandaru, Melammu Project, Nuabu, Old Assyrian Empire, Phoenicianism, ..., Puzur-Ashur I, Richard N. Frye, Samani (Assyrian king), Shamshi-Adad I, Succession of states, Suhlamu, Sulili, Syriac Christianity, Syriac studies, Terms for Syriac Christians, The Last Assyrians, Tudiya, Ushpia, Yakmeni, Yakmesi, Yangi, Yazkur-el, Zuabu. Expand index (18 more) »

Abazu (Assyrian king)

Abazu (Ab-a-zu) was an early Assyrian king.

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Adamu (Assyrian king)

Adamu (A-da-mu) was an early Assyrian king, and listed as the second among the, "seventeen kings who lived in tents" within the Mesopotamian Chronicles.

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Akiya (Assyrian king)

Akiya (A-ki-ia) was an early ruler of the city-state Assur.

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Aminu (Assyrian king)

Aminu (A-mi-nu) had been the twenty-sixth Assyrian monarch of the Early Period of ''Aššūrāyu'' (Assyria) according to the Assyrian King List (AKL).

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Apiashal

Apiashal (A-pi-a-ŠAL) had been an early monarch (fl. c. 2205 BCE — c. 2192 BCE) of the Early Period of Aššūrāyu (Assyria) according to the Assyrian King List (AKL).

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Arab Christians

Arab Christians (مسيحيون عرب Masīḥiyyūn ʿArab) are Arabs of the Christian faith.

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Aramaic studies

Aramaic studies is the study of the Aramaic language and Syriac Christianity.

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Asōristān

Asōristān (𐭠𐭮𐭥𐭥𐭮𐭲𐭭 Asōrestān, Āsūrestān) was the name of the Sasanian provinces of Mesopotamia from 226 to 637.

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Assyria

Assyria, also called the Assyrian Empire, was a major Semitic speaking Mesopotamian kingdom and empire of the ancient Near East and the Levant.

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Assyrian calendar

The Assyrian calendar is a lunar calendar which begins in the year 4750 BC, begun by the internal date of the foundation of Assur.

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Assyrian Evangelical Church

The Assyrian Evangelical Church is a Presbyterian church in the Middle East that attained a status of ecclesiastical independence from the Presbyterian mission in Iran in 1870.

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Assyrian homeland

The Assyrian homeland or Assyria refers to a geographic and cultural region situated in Northern Mesopotamia that has been traditionally inhabited by Assyrian people.

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Assyrian Pentecostal Church

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Assyrian people

Assyrian people (ܐܫܘܪܝܐ), or Syriacs (see terms for Syriac Christians), are an ethnic group indigenous to the Middle East.

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Assyrian–Chaldean–Syriac diaspora

The Assyrian–Chaldean–Syriac diaspora (Syriac: ܓܠܘܬܐ, Galuta, "exile") refers to Assyrians living in communities outside their ancestral homeland.

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Assyrians in Iraq

Assyrians in Iraq are an ethnoreligious and linguistic minority in present-day Iraq, and are the indigenous population of the region.

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Assyrians in Syria

Assyrians in Syria are people of Assyrian descent living in Syria.

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Assyriology

Assyriology (from Greek Ἀσσυρίᾱ, Assyriā; and -λογία, -logia) is the archaeological, historical, and linguistic study of not just Assyria, but the entirety of ancient Mesopotamia (a region encompassing what is today modern Iraq, north eastern Syria, south eastern Turkey, and north western and south western Iran) and of related cultures that used cuneiform writing.

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Azarah

Azarah (A-za-ra-aḫ) was an early Assyrian king.

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Babylonia

Babylonia was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq).

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Belu (Assyrian king)

Belu (Be-lu-ú) was an early Assyrian king.

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Beth Nahrain

Beth Nahrain or Bet Nahrain or (Bêṯ Nahrayn; "House of Two Rivers" is the name for the region known as Mesopotamia in the Syriac language. Geographically, it refers to the areas between and surrounding the Euphrates and Tigris rivers (as well as their tributaries). The Aramaic name loosely describes the area of the rivers, not only literally between the rivers. The area is considered by Assyrians as their homeland. This area roughly encompasses almost all of present-day Iraq, parts of southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, and, more recently, northeastern Syria. The Assyrians are considered to be indigenous inhabitants of Beth Nahrain. "Nahrainean" or "Nahrainian" is the Anglicized name for "Nahrāyā", which is the Aramaic equivalent of "Mesopotamian".

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Catholicos

Catholicos, plural Catholicoi, is a title used for the head of certain churches in some Eastern Christian traditions.

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Chaldea

Chaldea or Chaldaea was a Semitic-speaking nation that existed between the late 10th or early 9th and mid-6th centuries BC, after which it and its people were absorbed and assimilated into Babylonia.

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Chaldean Catholic Church

The Chaldean Catholic Church (ܥܕܬܐ ܟܠܕܝܬܐ ܩܬܘܠܝܩܝܬܐ, ʿīdtha kaldetha qāthuliqetha; Arabic: الكنيسة الكلدانية al-Kanīsa al-kaldāniyya; translation) is an Eastern Catholic particular church (sui juris) in full communion with the Holy See and the rest of the Catholic Church, with the Chaldean Patriarchate having been originally formed out of the Church of the East in 1552.

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Chaldean Catholics

Chaldean Catholics, known simply as Chaldeans (Kaldāye; ܟܠܕܝ̈ܐ or ܟܲܠܕܵܝܹܐ), are Assyrian Syriac Christian adherents of the Chaldean Catholic Church which emerged from the Church of the East after the schism of 1552.

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Christianity in the Middle East

Christianity, which originated in the Middle East in the 1st century AD, is a significant minority religion of the region. Christianity in the Middle East is characterized by the diversity of its beliefs and traditions, compared to other parts of the Old World. Christians now make up approximately 5% of the Middle Eastern population, down from 20% in the early 20th century. Cyprus is the only Christian Majority country in the Middle East, with the Christian percentage ranging between 76% and 78% of mainly Eastern Orthodox Christianity (i.e. most of the Greek population). Proportionally, Lebanon has the 2nd highest rate of Christians in the Middle East, with a percentage ranging between 39% and 41% of mainly Maronite Christians, followed by Egypt where Christians (especially Coptic Christians) and others account for about 11%. The largest Christian group in the Middle East is the previously Coptic speaking but today mostly Arabic-speaking Egyptian Copts, who number 15–20 million people, "estimates ranged from 6 to 11 million; 6% (official estimate) to 20% (Church estimate)" although Coptic sources claim the figure is closer to 12–16 million. "In 2008, Pope Shenouda III and Bishop Morkos, bishop of Shubra, declared that the number of Copts in Egypt is more than 12 million." (Arabic) "In 2008, father Morkos Aziz the prominent priest in Cairo declared that the number of Copts (inside Egypt) exceeds 16 million." Copts reside mainly in Egypt, but also in Sudan and Libya, with tiny communities in Israel, Cyprus, Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia. The Eastern Aramaic speaking indigenous Assyrians of Iraq, southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran and northeastern Syria, who number 2–3 million, have suffered both ethnic and religious persecution for many centuries, such as the Assyrian Genocide conducted by the Ottoman Turks and their allies, leading to many fleeing and congregating in areas in the north of Iraq and northeast of Syria. The great majority of Assyrians are followers of the Assyrian Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Ancient Church of the East, Assyrian Pentecostal Church and Assyrian Evangelical Church. In Iraq, the numbers of Assyrians has declined to between 300,000 and 500,000 (from 0.8 to 1.4 million before 2003 US invasion). Assyrian Christians were between 800,000 and 1.2 million before 2003. In 2014, the Assyrian population of the Nineveh Plains In Northern Iraq largely collapsed due to an Invasion by ISIS. But after the fall of ISIS the Assyrian population of the Nineveh Plainsis rreturning home. The next largest Christian group in the Middle East is the once Aramaic speaking but now Arabic-speaking Maronites who are Catholics and number some 1.1–1.2 million across the Middle East, mainly concentrated within Lebanon. Many Lebanese Christians avoid an Arabic ethnic identity in favour of a pre-Arab Phoenician-Canaanite heritage, to which most of the general Lebanese population originates from. In Israel, Israeli Maronites (Palestinians) together with smaller Aramaic-speaking Christian populations of Syriac Orthodox and Greek Catholic adherence are legally classified ethnically as either Arameans or Arabs per their choice. The Arab Christians mostly descended from Arab Christian tribes, from Arabized Greeks or are recent converts to Protestantism, and number about 5 million in the region. Most Arab Christians are adherents of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Roman Catholics of the Latin Rite are small in numbers and Protestants altogether number about 400,000. Most Arab Christian Catholics are originally non-Arab, with Melkites and Rum Christians descending from Arabized Greek-speaking Byzantine populations. They are members of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, a Eastern Catholic Church. They number over 1 million in the Middle East. They came into existence as a result of a schism within the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch due to the election of a Patriarch in 1724. The Armenians number around 1 million in the Middle East, with their largest community in Iran with 200,000 members. The number of Armenians in Turkey is disputed having a wide range of estimations. More Armenian communities reside in Lebanon, Jordan and to lesser degree in other Middle Eastern countries such as Iraq, Israel and Egypt. The Armenian Genocide during and after World War I drastically reduced the once sizeable Armenian population. The Greeks who had once inhabited large parts of the western Middle East and Asia Minor, declined after of the Arab conquests, then the later Turkish conquests, and all but vanished from Turkey as a result of the Greek Genocide and expulsions which followed World War I. Today the biggest Middle Eastern Greek community resides in Cyprus and numbers around 793,000 (2008). Cypriot Greeks constitute the only Christian majority state in the Middle East, although Lebanon was founded with a Christian majority in the first half of the 20th century. In addition, some of the modern Arab Christians (especially Melkites) constitute Arabized Greco-Roman communities rather than ethnic Arabs. Smaller Christian groups include: Arameans, Georgians, Ossetians and Russians. There are currently several million Christian foreign workers in the Gulf area, mostly from the Philippines, India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia. In the Persian Gulf states, Bahrain has 1,000 Christian citizens and Kuwait has 400 native Christian citizens, in addition to 450,000 Christian foreign residents in Kuwait. Although the vast majority of Middle Eastern populations descend from Pre-Arab and Non-Arab peoples extant long before the 7th century AD Arab Islamic conquest, a 2015 study estimates there are also 483,500 Christian believers from a previously Muslim background in the Middle East, most of them being adherents of various Protestant churches. Converts to Christianity from other religions such as Islam, Yezidism, Mandeanism, Yarsan, Zoroastrianism, Bahaism, Druze, and Judaism exist in relatively small numbers amongst the Kurdish, Turks, Turcoman, Iranian, Azeri, Circassian, Israelis, Kawliya, Yezidis, Mandeans and Shabaks. Middle Eastern Christians are relatively wealthy, well educated, and politically moderate, as they have today an active role in social, economic, sporting and political spheres in their societies in the Middle East.

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Dawronoye

Dawronoye is a secular, leftist nationalist movement among the Assyrian people.

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Didanu

Didanu (Di-da-a-nu) was an early Assyrian king.

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Early Period (Assyria)

The Early Period refers to the history of Assyrian civilization of Mesopotamia between 2500 BCE and 2025 BCE.

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Erbil

Erbil, also spelt Arbil or Irbil, locally called Hawler by the Kurdish people (ھەولێر Hewlêr; أربيل, Arbīl; ܐܲܪܒܝܠ, Arbela), is the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan and the largest city in northern Iraq.

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Erishum I

Erishum I or Erišu(m) I (inscribed me-ri-šu, or mAPIN-ìš in later texts but always with an initial i in his own seal, inscriptions, and those of his immediate successors, “he has desired,”) c. 1905 BC — c. 1866 BC (short chronology) or c. 1974 BC — c. 1935 BC (middle chronology),Some historians quote ca.

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Hale (Assyrian king)

Hale (Ḫa-le-e) was the eighteenth Assyrian monarch of the Early Period of Aššūrāyu (Assyria) (fl. c. 2028 BC), according to the Assyrian King List (AKL).

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Hana (Assyrian king)

Hana (Ḫa-nu-ú) was an early Assyrian king.

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Harharu

Harharu (Ḫar-ḫa-ru) was an early Assyrian king.

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Harsu

Harsu (Ḫar.Zum) was an early Assyrian king.

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Hayani

Hayani (Ḫa-ia-a-ni) was the twentieth Assyrian monarch of the Early Period of ''Aššūrāyu'' (Assyria) according to the Assyrian King List (AKL).

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History of the Assyrian people

The history of the Assyrian people begins with the appearance of Akkadian speaking peoples in Mesopotamia at some point between 3500 and 3000 BC, followed by the formation of Assyria in the 25th century BC.

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Hormuzd Rassam

Hormuzd Rassam (182616 September 1910) (ܗܪܡܙܕ ܪܣܐܡ), was an Assyriologist who made a number of important archaeological discoveries from 1877 to 1882, including the clay tablets that contained the Epic of Gilgamesh, the world's oldest literature.

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Ila-kabkabu

The Amorite name Ila-kabkabu appears twice in the Assyrian King List.

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Ilu-Mer

Ilu-Mer (Ilu-Me-Er)was the twenty-first Assyrian monarch of the Early Period of ''Aššūrāyu'' (Assyria) according to the Assyrian King List (AKL).

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Ilu-shuma

Ilu-shuma or Ilu-šūma, inscribed DINGIR-šum-ma,Khorsabad copy of the Assyrian King List i 24, 26.

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Imsu

Imsu (Im-ZUM) was an early Assyrian king.

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Ishme-Dagan I

Ishme-Dagan I (italic; fl. c. 1776 BCE — c. 1736 BCE) was a monarch of the Old Assyrian Empire.

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Kikkia

Kikkia (sometimes given as Kikkiya), inscribed mKi-ik-ki-aKhorsabad Kinglist, i 23.

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Mandaru

Mandaru (Man-da-ru) was an early Assyrian king.

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Melammu Project

The Melammu Project investigates the continuity, transformation and diffusion of Mesopotamian and Ancient Near Eastern culture from the third millennium BCE through the ancient world until Islamic times.

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Nuabu

Nuabu (Nu-a-bu) was an early Assyrian king.

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Old Assyrian Empire

The Old Assyrian Empire is one of four periods in which the history of Assyria is divided, the other three being the Early Assyrian Period, the Middle Assyrian Period, and the New Assyrian Period.

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Phoenicianism

Phoenicianism is a form of Lebanese nationalism, first adopted by Lebanese Christians, primarily Maronites, at the time of the creation of Greater Lebanon.

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Puzur-Ashur I

Puzur-Ashur I (Pu-AMAR-Aš-ŠUR) was an Assyrian who fl. c. 2000 BC.

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Richard N. Frye

Richard Nelson Frye (January 10, 1920 – March 27, 2014) was an American scholar of Iranian and Central Asian Studies, and Aga Khan Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Harvard University.

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Samani (Assyrian king)

Samani (Sa-ma-nu) was the nineteenth Assyrian monarch of the Early Period of ''Aššūrāyu'' (Assyria) according to the Assyrian King List (AKL).

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Shamshi-Adad I

Shamshi-Adad I (Šamši-Adad I; Amorite: Shamshi-Addu I; fl. c. 1809 BC – c. 1776 BC by the middle chronology) was an Amorite who had conquered lands across much of Syria, Anatolia, and Upper Mesopotamia for the Old Assyrian Empire.

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Succession of states

Succession of states is a theory and practice in international relations regarding successor states.

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Suhlamu

Suhlamu (Suḫ4-la-a-mu) was an early monarch of the Early Period of ''Aššūrāyu'' (Assyria).

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Sulili

Sulili (Su-li-li) was an early ruler of Assur.

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Syriac Christianity

Syriac Christianity (ܡܫܝܚܝܘܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ / mšiḥāiūṯā suryāiṯā) refers to Eastern Christian traditions that employs Syriac language in their liturgical rites.

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Syriac studies

Syriac studies is the study of the Syriac language and Syriac Christianity.

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Terms for Syriac Christians

Syriac Christians are an ethnoreligious grouping of various ethnic communities of indigenous pre-Arab Semitic and often Neo-Aramaic-speaking Christian people of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine and Israel.

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The Last Assyrians

The Last Assyrians (Les Derniers Assyriens) is a French documentary film by Robert Alaux.

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Tudiya

Tudiya or Tudia (Ṭu-di-ia) is the earliest Assyrian king named in the Assyrian King List, and the first of the “seventeen kings who lived in tents.” His existence is unconfirmed archeologically and uncorroborated by any other source.

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Ushpia

Ushpia (Uš-pi-a) was an early Assyrian king who ruled Assyria (fl. c. 2030 BC), as the second last within the section "kings who lived in tents” of the Assyrian King List (AKL), however; Ushpia has yet to be confirmed by contemporary artifacts.

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Yakmeni

Yakmeni (Ia-ak-me-ni) had been the twenty-third Assyrian monarch of the Early Period of ''Aššūrāyu'' (Assyria) according to the Assyrian King List (AKL).

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Yakmesi

Yakmesi (Ia-ak-me-si) had been the twenty-second Assyrian monarch of the Early Period of ''Aššūrāyu'' (Assyria) according to the Assyrian King List (AKL).

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Yangi

Yangi (Ia-an-gi) was an early monarch of the Early Period of Assyria (Azuhinum).

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Yazkur-el

Yazkur-el (Ia-az-KUR-él) had been the twenty-fourth Assyrian monarch of the Early Period of ''Aššūrāyu'' (Assyria) according to the Assyrian King List (AKL).

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Zuabu

Zuabu (Zu-a-bu) was an early Assyrian king.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_continuity

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