Barga (Syria)

Barga (also: Parga) was a late Bronze Age city-kingdom in the north of today's Syria . Its location is believed to be south of Aleppo and east of the Orontes .

Barga is mentioned in the Amarna letters and in Hittite sources. Barga was in the border region between the kingdoms of the Egyptians and the Hittites. The Amarna correspondence from the 14th century BC. BC to Barga has only been preserved in extremely fragments and hardly allows more detailed information. Hittite sources from the time of Mursili II (approx. 1321–1294 BC) report on border disputes between Barga, which was ruled by Abi-Radda, and the neighboring Nuḫašše under Tette . Tette had rebelled against the Hittite rule, was overthrown and replaced by a pro-Hittite ruler, Sumittara. Barga was apparently an ally of the Hittites at this time, because a peace treaty between Muršili II and Sumittara regulated that the city of Yaruwarta, which had been claimed by Nuhašše up to then, should fall to Abi-Radda.

There is evidence of a settlement Parga in the same region from the Iron Age , which is believed to be the same place.

literature

• Trevor Bryce: The Routledge Handbook of the People and Places of Ancient Western Asia: The Near East from the Early Bronze Age to the Fall of the Persian Empire. Routledge, London & New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-415-39485-7 , p. 112.