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Aga of Kish
Aga of Kish was a king of Kish in Sumer in the Early Dynastic period, around the twenty-seventh century BCE, listed in the Sumerian King List as the last ruler of the First Dynasty of Kish and the son of Enmebaragesi. He is known chiefly from the Sumerian poem Gilgamesh and Aga, which tells how he besieged Uruk and was captured and then released by Gilgamesh.
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