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Yarim-Lim I

r. c. 1780–1764 BCE · 18th century BCE · Also known as Yarim-Lim I of Yamhad

Yarim-Lim I was king of Yamhad, centred on Aleppo, in the early 18th century BCE, succeeding his father Sumu-Epuh. He resisted Shamshi-Adad I of Upper Mesopotamia and made Yamhad the leading power of Syria, allied with Zimri-Lim of Mari and Hammurabi of Babylon. A letter from Mari says twenty kings followed him.

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