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Royal intermarriage is the practice of members of ruling dynasties marrying into other reigning families. It was more commonly done in the past as part of strategic diplomacy for national interest . Although sometimes enforced by legal requirement on persons of royal birth, more often it has been a matter of political policy or tradition in ...
This category has the following 14 subcategories, out of 14 total. 8th-century BC people by continent (1 C) 8th-century BC people by nationality (8 C) 8th-century BC people by occupation (7 C) 8th-century BC people by religion (4 C) 8th-century BC women (2 C, 9 P) 8th-century BC Aramean kings (8 P)
Ešarra-hammat was queen of Assyria, wife of Esarhaddon (680-669), mother of Ashurbanipal and Šamaš-šumi-ukin (died in 672). There are no references to her as a living person but the sources make it very clear that her loss caused deep grief for Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal and that she was remembered with great reverence.
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Assyrians had a monarchical structure in which a king, who came to power through inheritance from a specific family, held absolute authority. At times, this form of governance manifested as a theocratic monarchy, where every political action found its legitimacy on religious grounds.
Category. : Neo-Assyrian Empire. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Neo-Assyrian Empire. Articles relating to the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911-609 BCE), an Iron Age Mesopotamian empire. It became the largest empire of the world up until that time. The Assyrians perfected early techniques of imperial rule, many of which became standard in later ...
Feb 8, 2024 · This is certainly one of reason why Esarhaddon’s mother Naqi’a, his wife Ešarra-ḫammat and his eldest daughter Šerua-eṭirat were able to wield an amount of influence that has few parallels in Ancient Near Eastern history ….
