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Turukkaeans

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448: 86:(1781-1750 BCE). The Turukkaeans were allied to the Land of Ahazum, and they gathered at the town of Ikkallum to face the army of Ishme-Dagan, as Shamshi-Adad wrote in a letter to his other son Yasmah-Adad. Ishme-Dagan destroyed the army reporting "Not one man escaped". Turukkum seems to have been made up of a collection of kingdoms with mixed populations, possibly mostly 155: 214:
The Turukka people evidently belonged to those late-gentile groups in which the primitive social conditions had already decayed and tribal leaders exercised a permanent function due to close contact, partly established through economic pressure, with the state-organized population practicing rain-fed
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A map of Mesopotamia and south-western Iran during the 2nd Millennium BCE. The Tukri are generally believed to have been located immediately north of Lullubi (top centre of the map) during this period.
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Sasson, Jack M., "Warfare", From the Mari Archives: An Anthology of Old Babylonian Letters, University Park, USA: Penn State University Press, pp. 181-214, 2015
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are being used for the same region. In a broader sense, names such as Turukkaean been used in a generic sense to mean "mountain people" or "highlanders".
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was said to have spanned the north-east edge of Mesopotamia and an adjoining part of the Zagros Mountains. In particular, they were associated with the
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In terms of cultural and linguistic characteristics, little is known about the Tukri. They are described by their contemporaries as a semi-
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This article is about a people of ancient South West Asia. For an African ethnic group sometimes known as the Tukri, see
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Turukkum was regarded by the Kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia as a constant threat, during the reign of Amorite
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The Turukkeans were closely associated with the Lullubi, and attacked the Hurrian city Madraman.
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basin and the valleys of the north-east Zagros. They were therefore located north of ancient
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A significant early reference to them is an inscription by the Babylonian king
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The Routledge Handbook of The Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia
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Keilschrifttafeln von Bassetki lüften Geheimnis um Königsstadt Mardaman
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Department of Tehran Archaeological releases from Iran, Volume 19
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People of Ancient Assyria: Their Inscriptions and Correspondence
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States and territories disestablished in the 1st millennium BC
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States and territories established in the 2nd millennium BC
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By the early part of the 1st millennium BCE, names such as
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The Turukkaeans were reported to have sacked the city of
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agriculture in the Rania Plain and the Zagros foothills.
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Jörgen Laessøe, "The Quest for the Country of *Utûm",
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Index

Turukku
Toucouleur people
Bronze
Iron Age
Zagros Mountains
endonym
reconstructed
Shamshi-Adad I
Ishme-Dagan
Hurrian
Semitic
Mardaman
Hammurabi
Gutium
Subartu
Elam

Lake Urmia
Lullubi
Neo-Assyrian
nomadic
Hurrian
Horst Klengel
de
Gutian dynasty of Sumer
Sumerian King List
Gutian language
"Turukkum"

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