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Shalmaneser I (Shulmanu-asharidu), king of Assyria
Assyria

Assyria was a political state centered on the Upper Tigris river, in Mesopotamia , that came to rule regional empires a number of times in history....
. (1274 BC – 1245 BC or 1265 BC - 1235 BC)

Son of Adad-nirari I
Adad-nirari I

Adad-nirari I was a Kings of Assyria of Assyria. He is the earliest Assyrian king whose annals survive in any detail.Adad-nirari I was a king of substantial military consequence in the development of the Assyrian kingdom....
, he succeeded his father as King in 1265 BC.

According to his annals, discovered at Assur
Assur

Assur , was one of the capitals of ancient Assyria. The remains of the city are situated on the western bank of river Tigris, north of the confluence with the tributary Little Zab river, in modern day Iraq....
, in his first year he conquered eight countries in the north-west and destroyed the fortress of Arinnu
Arinnu

According to the annals of Shalmaneser I, discovered at Assur , in his first year he conquered eight countries in the north-west and destroyed the fortress of Arinnu, the dust of which he brought to Assur....
, the dust of which he brought to Assur.






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Shalmaneser I (Shulmanu-asharidu), king of Assyria
Assyria

Assyria was a political state centered on the Upper Tigris river, in Mesopotamia , that came to rule regional empires a number of times in history....
. (1274 BC – 1245 BC or 1265 BC - 1235 BC)

Son of Adad-nirari I
Adad-nirari I

Adad-nirari I was a Kings of Assyria of Assyria. He is the earliest Assyrian king whose annals survive in any detail.Adad-nirari I was a king of substantial military consequence in the development of the Assyrian kingdom....
, he succeeded his father as King in 1265 BC.

According to his annals, discovered at Assur
Assur

Assur , was one of the capitals of ancient Assyria. The remains of the city are situated on the western bank of river Tigris, north of the confluence with the tributary Little Zab river, in modern day Iraq....
, in his first year he conquered eight countries in the north-west and destroyed the fortress of Arinnu
Arinnu

According to the annals of Shalmaneser I, discovered at Assur , in his first year he conquered eight countries in the north-west and destroyed the fortress of Arinnu, the dust of which he brought to Assur....
, the dust of which he brought to Assur. In his second year he defeated Shattuara
Shattuara

Shattuara, also spelled ?attuara, was a king of the Hurrian kingdom of Hanigalbat in the thirteenth century BC.Shattuara was a vassal of the Assyrian king Adad-nirari I ....
, king of Hanilgalbat, and his Hittite
Hittites

The Hittites were an ancient Anatolian people who spoke a Hittite language of the Anatolian languages of the Indo-European languages family, and established a kingdom centered at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia ca....
 and Ahlamu allies. He incorporated remains of Mittani kingdom, as part of one of the Assyrian province. Shalmaneser I also claimed to have blinded
Blinding

Blinding can refer to:*The act of making someone blindness**Metaphorical and extended uses of same: see blindness#Metaphorical uses*Blinding , a technique by which an agent can provide a service to a client in an encoded form without knowing either the real input or the real output...
 14,400 enemy prisoners in one eye. He was one of the first Assyrian kings who was known to deport his defeated enemies to various lands rather than simply slaughtering them all.

He conquered the whole country from Taidu
Taidu

Taidu can refer to:* Taite, an ancient Middle Eastern city* Taiwan independence, as the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation of the term...
 to Irridu, all of mount Kashiar to Eluhat and the fortresses of Sudu, Harranu to Carchemish
Carchemish

Carchemish was an important ancient city of the Mitanni and Hittites empires, now on the frontier between Turkey and Syria. It was the location of an Battle of Carchemish between the Babylonians and Egyptians, mentioned in the Bible....
 on the Euphrates
Euphrates

The Euphrates is the western of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia which flows from Anatolia....
. He built palaces at Assur
Assur

Assur , was one of the capitals of ancient Assyria. The remains of the city are situated on the western bank of river Tigris, north of the confluence with the tributary Little Zab river, in modern day Iraq....
 and Nineveh
Nineveh

Nineveh , an "exceeding great city", as it is called in the Book of Jonah, lay on the eastern bank of the Tigris in ancient Assyria, across the river from the modern-day major city of Mosul, Iraq....
, restored "the world-temple" at Assur, and founded the city of Nimrud
Nimrud

Nimrud is an ancient Assyrian city located south of Nineveh on the river Tigris. In ancient times the city was called Kalhu. The Arabs called the city Nimrud after Nimrod , a legendary hunting hero....
. He was succeeded by his son Tukulti-Ninurta I
Tukulti-Ninurta I

Tukulti-Ninurta I was a king of Assyria. He succeeded Shalmaneser I, his father, as king and won a major victory against the Hittites at the Battle of Nihriya in the first half of his reign....
.

Limmu Officials by Year


Annual limmu officials beginning with the year of accession of Šulmanu-ašared. The list is partly deprived from Freydank and McIntyre. The exact order of the earliest limmus is conjectural but the ordering from Šerriya onwards is essentially fixed.

1265 Adad-šumu-lešir son of Sin-ašared
1264 Šulmanu-ašared (king)
1263 Mušabšiu-Šibitti
1262 Ber-šumu-iddina
1261 Abi-ili son Aššur-šumu-lešir
1260 Aššur-alik-pana
1259 Adad-Šamši son of Adad-šumu-lešir
1258 Kidin-Sin son Adad-teya
1257 Šerriya
1256 Aššur-kašid
1255 Aššur-mušabši son of Iddin-Mer
1254 Aššur-mušabši son of Anu-mušallim
1253 Qibi-Aššur son of Šamaš-a?a-iddina
1252 Aššur-nadin-šume
1251 Mušallim-Aššur
1250 Qibi-Aššur son of ?illi-Marduk
1249 Ina-pi-Aššur-lišlim son of Babu-a?a-iddina
1248 Ber-šumu-lešir son of Ete-pi-Tašmete
1247 Aššur-dammiq son of Abi-ili
1246 Ber-bel-lite
1245 Ištar-eriš son of Šulmanu-qarrad
1244 Lullayu son of Adad-šumu-iddina
1243 Aššur-ketti-ide son of Abi-ili
1242 Ekaltayu
1241 Aššur-da?issunu son of Ululayu
1240 Riš-Adad
1239 Nabu-bela-u?ur
1238 Usat-Marduk
1237 Ellil-ašared
1236 Ittabši-den-Aššur
1235 Ubru