Ibiranu (reigned 1235 BC – 1225/20 BC) was the sixth king of
Ugarit
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, a city-state in northwestern
Syria. Ibiranu reigned between c. 1235 and 1225/20 BC, and was a contemporary of
Tudhaliya IV Tudhaliya is the name of several Hittite kings:
*Tudhaliya (also Tudhaliya I) is a hypothetic pre-Empire king of the Hittites. He would have reigned in the late 17th century BC ( short chronology). Forlanini (1993) conjectures that this king corres ...
and
Arnuwanda III
Arnuwanda III was the penultimate king of the Hittite empire (New Kingdom) c. 1215–1210 BC (middle chronology) or c. 1209–1207 BC ( short chronology).
Family
Arnuwanda was a son of Tudhaliya IV and grandson of Hattusili III ḪattuÅ¡ili (''á ...
of
Hatti. As a
vassal state
A vassal state is any state that has a mutual obligation to a superior state or empire, in a status similar to that of a vassal in the feudal system in medieval Europe. Vassal states were common among the empires of the Near East, dating back to ...
of Hatti the king was answerable to the viceroy at
Carchemish
Carchemish ( Turkish: ''Karkamış''; or ), also spelled Karkemish ( hit, ; Hieroglyphic Luwian: , /; Akkadian: ; Egyptian: ; Hebrew: ) was an important ancient capital in the northern part of the region of Syria. At times during it ...
.
[Bryce, 2003, pp. 215–217][Watson, 1999, p. 686]
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Ugaritic kings
1220s BC deaths
13th-century BC rulers
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13th-century BC people