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city of the ancient near east. It was a city in what is today Syria. During the Mari-Ebla war (2300 BC) Zahiran was the site of a battle between

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King of Ebla, and

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, King of Mari. About a

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latter it would have been absorbed into the empire of

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. The town was sacked in the

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n armies that "''in the month Âbu the king of Akkad and his army went upstream to

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, Sahiri and Bali-hu. He plundered them, sacked them extensively and abducted their gods.''"Bill T. Arnold, Bryan E. Beyer, Readings from the Ancient Near East: Primary Sources for

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Study (Baker Academic, 2002) p. 156.

References

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