Back 1 ሻምሺ-አዳድ Amharic شمشي أدد الأول Arabic شمشى ادد الاول ARZ Xamxi-Adad I Catalan Šamši-Adad I. Czech Šamši-Adad I. German Σαμσί Αντάντ Α΄ Greek Shamshiadad I Spanish شمشی-ادد یکم Persian Šamši-Adad I Finnish
| Shamshi-Adad I | |
|---|---|
| King of the Universe Pacifier of the Land between Tigris and Euphrates[1] | |
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| King of Upper Mesopotamia | |
| Reign | c. 1808–1776 BC[2] |
| Successor | Ishme-Dagan I (Assur and Ekallatum) Yasmah-Adad (Mari) |
| Died | c. 1776 BC Šubat-Enlil |
| Akkadian | Šamši-Adad |
| Amorite | Shamshi-Addu |
| Father | Ila-kabkabu |
Shamshi-Adad (Akkadian: Šamši-Adad; Amorite: Shamshi-Addu), ruled c. 1808–1776 BC, was an Amorite warlord and conqueror who had conquered lands across much of Syria, Anatolia, and Upper Mesopotamia.[3] His capital was originally at Ekallatum and later moved to Šubat-Enlil.[4]
- ^ Veenhof, Klaas R. (2017). "The Old Assyrian Period (20th–18th century BCE)". In E. Frahm (ed.). A Companion to Assyria. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1118325247.
- ^ Chen, Fei (2020). "Appendix I: A List of Assyrian Kings". Study on the Synchronistic King List from Ashur. Leiden: BRILL. ISBN 978-9004430914.
- ^ Some of the Mari letters addressed to Shamsi-Adad by his son can be found in the Mari Letters section of Shaika Haya Ali Al Khalifa and Michael Rice (1986). Bahrain through the Ages. KPI. ISBN 0-7103-0112-X.
- ^ [1]Ziegler, Nele, and Adelheid Otto, "Ekallatum, Samsi-Addu’s capital city, localised", Entre les fleuves–III. On the Way in Upper Mesopotamia: Travels, Routes and Environment as Basis for the Reconstruction of Historical Geography 30, pp. 221-252, 2023