Subartu
Sign in to savethumb|The Akkadian Empire under Naram-Sin, Subartu is shown north.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- historical country
- Location
- Upper Mesopotamia
- Image
- Near East topographic map with toponyms 3000bc-en.svg
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 0007-00-00
- name
- KUR SU.BIR4KI
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Amarna letters corpus
- The letters referencing region ''Subartu''
- EA 108, "Unheard-of deeds"
- See also
- References
- Further reading
thumb|The Akkadian Empire under Naram-Sin, Subartu is shown north.
The land of Subartu (, Assyrian: mât Šubarri) or Subar (, ) is mentioned in Bronze Age literature and was inhabited by the Subarians. The name also appears as Subari in the Amarna letters, and, in the form Šbr, in Ugarit.
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