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Ahuni

9th century BCE · 9th century BCE

Ahuni was the king of Bit-Adini, an Aramaean state on the Euphrates in northern Syria, in the 9th century BCE. He resisted the Assyrian kings Ashurnasirpal II and Shalmaneser III with the help of Carchemish and other Syrian kingdoms. Shalmaneser took his capital Til Barsip in 856 BCE, and Ahuni surrendered the following year and was deported to Assyria.

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Bit Adini

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