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Niqmaddu II
Niqmaddu II was a king of Ugarit on the Syrian coast in the 14th century BCE. Formerly an Egyptian vassal, he submitted to the Hittite king Suppiluliuma I, making Ugarit a Hittite vassal for the rest of its history. Many tablets in the Ugaritic alphabet, including copies of the Baal epics, date from his reign.
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