Bit-Zamani

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Bit-Zamani was an ancient Aramean kingdom in northern Mesopotamia, known from early first-millennium BCE Assyrian sources.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Bit-Zamani canonical 2

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Statements (28)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Aramean polity
Syro-Mesopotamian state
ancient kingdom
attestedInCentury 10th century BCE
9th century BCE
conflictWith Assyria
ethnicCharacter Aramean
historicalStatus defunct state
knownFrom Assyrian royal inscriptions
early first-millennium BCE sources
languageContext Aramaic
locatedIn Near East
linked to: Middle East

Upper Tigris region
northern Mesopotamia
mentionedBy Ashurnasirpal II
other Neo-Assyrian kings
neighborOf Assyria
partOf ancient Near East political landscape
partOfHistoricalRegion Aram
linked to: Aram-naharaim

Mesopotamia
politicalRelationWith Assyrian Empire
linked to: Assyria
politicalType city-state (broad sense)
kingdom
regionCharacter frontier zone between Arameans and Assyrians
religiousContext ancient Near Eastern polytheism
sourceType cuneiform inscriptions
subjugatedBy Assyria
timePeriod early first millennium BCE

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Arameans notableKingdom Bit-Zamani
Bit-Adini neighborOf Bit-Zamani