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Akkadian Akkadian or Accadian may refer to: * Akkadians, inhabitants of the Akkadian Empire * Akkadian language, an extinct Eastern Semitic language * Akkadian literature, literature in this language * Akkadian cuneiform, early writing system * Akkadian myt ...

: ''Šar-ru-gi'', later ''Šarru-kīn'', meaning "the faithful king" or "the legitimate king") was the name of three kings in ancient

Mesopotamia Mesopotamia ''Mesopotamíā''; ar, بِلَاد ٱلرَّافِدَيْن or ; syc, ܐܪܡ ܢܗܪ̈ܝܢ, or , ) is a historical region of Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the F ...

, sometimes adopted in modern times as both a given name and a surname.

Mesopotamian kings

Sargon of Akkad Sargon of Akkad (; akk, ''Šarrugi''), also known as Sargon the Great, was the first ruler of the Akkadian Empire, known for his conquests of the Sumerian city-states in the 24th to 23rd centuries BC.The date of the reign of Sargon is high ...

( 2334–2279 BC), founder of the

Akkadian Empire The Akkadian Empire () was the first ancient empire of Mesopotamia after the long-lived civilization of Sumer. It was centered in the city of Akkad () and its surrounding region. The empire united Akkadian and Sumerian speakers under one rul ...

Sargon I Sargon I (also transcribed as Šarru-kīn I and Sharru-ken I) was the king (Išši’ak Aššur, "Steward of Assur") during the Old Assyrian period from 1920 BC to 1881 BC. On the Assyrian King List, Sargon appears as the son and successor of I ...

( 1920–1881 BC), king of the Old Assyrian city-state *

Sargon II Sargon II (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , meaning "the faithful king" or "the legitimate king") was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 722 BC to his death in battle in 705. Probably the son of Tiglath-Pileser III (745–727), Sargon is genera ...

( BC), king of the

Neo-Assyrian Empire The Neo-Assyrian Empire was the fourth and penultimate stage of ancient Assyrian history and the final and greatest phase of Assyria as an independent state. Beginning with the accession of Adad-nirari II in 911 BC, the Neo-Assyrian Empire grew ...

Modern people

Given name

Sargon Boulus Sargon Boulus ( syr, ܣܪܓܘܢ ܦܘܠܘܨ; ar, سركون بولص) was an Iraqi poet, journalist and writer. Born in 1944, he died on 22 October 2007. Biography Boulus was born on 10 March, 1944 in Habbaniyah, Iraq, to Assyrian parents. ...

(1944–2007), Assyrian-Iraqi poet *

Sargon Dadesho Sargon Dadesho ( syr, ܣܪܓܘܢ ܕܕܝܫܘܥ, ar, سركون داديشو; born September 18, 1948 in Habbaniyah, Iraq) is an Iraqi-American author, broadcaster, activist, and nationalist leader of Assyrian descent. Dadesho is currently the h ...

(born 1948), Assyrian nationalist *

Sargon Duran Sargon Duran (born 31 January 1987) is an Austrian former professional association football, footballer who played as a centre-back. He is the assistant manager of FK Austria Wien, Austria Wien. Coaching career In July 2018, Duran was appointed ...

(born 1987), Assyrian Austrian football player * Sargon Gabriel (born 1947), Assyrian folk music singer

Surname

* Brett Sargon (born 1991), New Zealand curler * Cindy Sargon, Assyrian Australian TV chef * Simon Sargon (born 1938), Assyrian American composer and professor

Nickname

* Carl Benjamin, British political commentator and YouTuber known as Sargon of Akkad

Characters

* Sargon the Sorcerer, a comic superhero character from DC Comics, first appeared in 1941 * Sargon, a disembodied alien leader in the 1968 ''Star Trek'' episode " Return to Tomorrow" * Sargon, a character in Daniel Pinkwater's 1982 novel '' Slaves of Spiegel'' * One of the Titans in the 2019 film '' King of the Monsters''

Other uses

Dur-Sharrukin Dur-Sharrukin ("Fortress of Sargon"; ar, دور شروكين, Syriac: ܕܘܪ ܫܪܘ ܘܟܢ), present day Khorsabad, was the Assyrian capital in the time of Sargon II of Assyria. Khorsabad is a village in northern Iraq, 15 km northeast of ...

(meaning 'city of Sargon), Assyrian city of the

(911-605 BC) * ''Sargon'' (chess), a 1978 computer game series * ''Sargon'' (beetle), a genus of beetles in the tribe tropiphorini * Sargon Stele, Assyrian royal stele found on Cyprus in 1845 *

Sargonid dynasty The Sargonid dynasty was the final ruling dynasty of Assyria, ruling as kings of Assyria during the Neo-Assyrian Empire for just over a century from the ascent of Sargon II in 722 BC to the fall of Assyria in 609 BC. Although Assyria would u ...

, Assyrian royal dynasty {{disambiguation, given name, surname