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Kingdom of Carchemish
Origins
When the Hittite Empire fell c. 1180 BCE, the Viceroyalty of Carchemish survived, and King Kuzi-Teshub took the title great king. His descendants and their successors ruled a kingdom astride the Euphrates crossing, in what is now the Turkish-Syrian border.
Rule and society
Kings of the house of Suhi, and later Astiru and the regent Yariri, recorded their deeds in Luwian hieroglyphs on basalt reliefs lining processional ways, the Long Wall of Sculpture. Carchemish grew rich on river trade and textiles. British Museum excavations from 1911, with Leonard Woolley and T. E. Lawrence, uncovered much of the city.
Decline and legacy
The kingdom paid tribute to the Assyrian Empire from the 9th century BCE. In 717 BCE Sargon II deposed King Pisiri for plotting with Phrygia and turned Carchemish into a province. In 605 BCE the city saw Nebuchadnezzar's victory over Egypt.
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- Kingdom of Carchemish paid tribute to Assyrian Empire870 BCE – 717 BCE
- Kingdom of Carchemish was conquered by Assyrian Empire717 BCE
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Kingdom of Carchemish. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/kingdom-of-carchemish
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