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Ashur-uballit I (Aššur-uballiṭ I), who reigned between c. 1363 and c. 1328 BC, was the first king of the Middle Assyrian Empire. After his father Eriba-Adad I had broken Mitanni influence over Assyria, Ashur-uballit I's defeat of the Mitanni king Shuttarna III marks Assyria's ascendancy over the Hurri-Mitanni Empire, and the beginning of ...
Ashur-uballit I, (reigned c. 1365–30 bc), king of Assyria during Mesopotamia’s feudal age, who created the first Assyrian empire and initiated the Middle Assyrian period (14th to 12th century bc). With the help of the Hittites he destroyed the dominion of the Aryan Mitanni (a non-Semitic people.
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After several centuries of obscurity and even loss of independence from around 1400 B.C. under the powerful northern Mesopotamian state of Mitanni, Assyria’s fortunes revived in the reign of Ashur-uballit I (1365–1330 B.C.).
Aššur-uballiṭ or Ashur-uballit was one of two Assyrian kings: Ashur-uballit I or Aššur-uballiṭ I, reigned between 1365 and 1330 BC, was the first king of the Middle Assyrian Empire; Ashur-uballit II or Aššur-uballiṭ II, last king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, succeeding Sin-shar-ishkun (623–612 BC)
Ashur-uballit’s letter is one of several hundred discovered in the late 1800s at the Egyptian capital of Amarna. Known today as the Amarna Letters, the missives were written within a forty year period by rulers from across the ancient Near East.
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Military. Society. Religion. See also. Notes. References. Middle Assyrian Empire. The Middle Assyrian Empire was the third stage of Assyrian history, covering the history of Assyria from the accession of Ashur-uballit I c. 1365 BC and the rise of Assyria as a territorial kingdom [1] to the death of Ashur-dan II in 912 BC.
