Zahiran also known as Sahiri or Sa-hi-ri, also known as Zahiran was an

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city of the ancient

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. It was a city in what is today

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. During the Mari-Ebla war (2300 BC) Zahiran was the site of a battle between

Igrish-Halam Igrish-Halam or Igriš-Halab, was a king of the ancient city state of Ebla. His name means "(The god of) Halab has driven away (the opponent)", hence, the name might be a commemoration of an Eblaite victory that led to the incorporation of land ...

King of Ebla, and

Iblul-il Iblul-Il (reigned c. 2380 BC), was the most energetic king ( Lugal) of the second Mariote kingdom, noted for his extensive campaigns in the middle Euphrates valley against the Eblaites, and in the upper Tigris region against various opponents, w ...

, King of Mari. About a decade latter it would have been absorbed into the empire of

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. The town was sacked in the Battle of Nineveh (612 BC). The

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of Aššur-uballit II, known as Chronicle 3, states of the Battle of Nineveh between

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ian and

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n armies that "''in the month Âbu the king of

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and his army went upstream to Mane, Sahiri and Bali-hu. He plundered them, sacked them extensively and abducted their gods.''"Bill T. Arnold, Bryan E. Beyer, Readings from the Ancient Near East: Primary Sources for

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Study (Baker Academic, 2002) p. 156.

References

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