Alzi
Alzi was an Iron Age empire in the Elazığ area . In the west it bordered on Šupa . Alzi is known from Assyrian and Urartian sources. In Alzi there was an important pass over the Taurus , the Salmanasser III , for example . on his campaign against Urartu in 856 BC Used.
The area was already densely populated in the Middle Iron Age (800–600 BC).
Tukulti-Ninurta I already led a campaign against Alzi. Under Sargon , Alzi was ruled by a Urartian official named Siplia. There is an inscription from Sargon from Malatya , but the Assyrians did not invade Alzi. Veli believes that the Euphrates was the accepted border between Assyria and Urartu at that time.
Cities
- Norşuntepe , flooded by the Keban Dam , excavations by Harald Hauptmann , Heidelberg
Individual evidence
- ^ HF Russell, Shalmaneser's Campaign to Urarṭu in 856 BC and the Historical Geography of Eastern Anatolia. Anatolian Studies 4, 1984, 179
- ↑ Veli Sevin, The oldest highway: between the regions of Van and Elazig in eastern Anatolia. Antiquity 62, 1988, 547
- ^ L. Watermann, Royal correspondence of the Assyria Empire. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1930/1936, No. 444
- ^ E. Pecorella, Malatya III, Rapporto Preliminare delle Campagne 1963-1968. Livelo eteo Imperiale e Quelli Neoetei. Rome 1975
- ↑ Veli Sevin, The oldest highway: between the regions of Van and Elazig in eastern Anatolia. Antiquity 62, 1988, 548