Bit-Adini

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Bit-Adini was an ancient Aramean kingdom located along the middle Euphrates River, known from early first-millennium BCE Near Eastern sources.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Bit-Adini canonical 2
Bit Adini 1
Bit-Bahiani 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Aramean kingdom
Neo-Assyrian king
ancient Near Eastern polity
ancient city
archaeological site
archaeologicalSiteCorrespondsTo Tell Ahmar
borderedBy Assyria
other Aramean states
capital Til Barsip
conflictedWith Assyria
conqueredBy Assyria
Shalmaneser III
culture Aramean culture
economyBasedOn agriculture
riverine trade
ethnicCharacter Aramean
fallDateApproximate 9th century BCE
flourishedInCentury 10th century BCE
9th century BCE
flourishedInPeriod early first millennium BCE
governedFrom Til Barsip
hasAlternativeName Bīt-Adini
hasAlternativeTransliteration Bit Adini
linked to: Bit-Adini
hasRulerTitle king
incorporatedInto Neo-Assyrian Empire
knownFrom Assyrian royal inscriptions
cuneiform texts
languageSpoken Aramaic
locatedIn Middle Euphrates region
locatedInPresentDay Syria
Syria
locatedOn Euphrates River
linked to: Euphrates

Euphrates River
linked to: Euphrates
mentionedInLanguage Akkadian
mentionedInSourceCulture Neo-Assyrian
neighborOf Bit-Zamani
Carchemish
linked to: Karkemish

Hamath
partOfHistoricalRegion Syria
Upper Mesopotamia
politicalStructure city-state confederation
politicalType kingdom
regionType Syro-Mesopotamian
religion West Semitic polytheism
strategicImportance control of Euphrates crossings
subjectOf Assyrian military campaigns
timeDepth Iron Age
writingSystemUsedInSources cuneiform

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Arameans notableKingdom Bit-Adini
Bit-Adini hasAlternativeTransliteration Bit Adini
linked to: Bit-Adini
Aramean kingdoms notableKingdom Bit-Adini
Aramean kingdoms notableKingdom Bit-Bahiani
linked to: Bit-Adini