Sea country

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Nippur Susa Sea country

The sea country on the map of Iraq

The Meerland (also Zealand ; Sumerian ^Kur A.AB.BA) was a country in southern Mesopotamia , between Nippur and Gambulu . It bordered in Babylon south of Bit Jakin and north of bit Dakkuri . The sea land was first discovered at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC. Mentioned.

Kings of the Sea Country

• 680 BC Chr .: Nabu-zeri-kittil-lišir is killed in Elam after his escape by Humban-Haltaš II .
• from 679 BC Chr .: Naid-Marduk , his brother, confirmed by Asarhaddon

See also

• List of kings of the sea country

literature

• JA Brinkman: Meerland In: Dietz-Otto Edzard : Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Near Eastern Archeology , Vol. 8 . de Gruyter, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-1101-4809-9 , pp. 6-10.