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Encyclopedia: Sargon II

Sargon II (ܣܪܓܘܢ in Syriac) (r. 722 BC-705 BC) was an Assyrian king. He took the throne from Shalmanassar V in 722 BC. It is not clear if he was the son of Tiglath-Pileser III or a usurper unrelated to the royal family. In his inscriptions, he styles himself as a new man, rarely referring to his predecessors; however he took the name Sharru-kinu, "true king", after Sargon of Akkad — who had founded the first Semitic Empire in the region some 16 centuries earlier. Sargon is the Biblical form of the name.

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	(Japanese)	サルゴン2世
	(German)	Sargon II.
	(French)	Sargon II
	(Italian)	Sargon II

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Sargon

There have been two monarchs named Sargon : Sargon of Akkad Sargon II of Assyria...

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Oriental Institute

of Sargon II, and finally a monumental statue of King Tutankhamun. The giant Assyrian winged bull, or lamassu from Sargon II's palace at Khorsabad. Even given unlimited resources and comparable...

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8th century BC

by Assyrian king Sargon II (721 BC) Greeks colonize Mediterranean and Black Seas. Significant...

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Hoshea

secure the succession of Sargon II. The land of Israel, which had resisted the Assyrians for years without a king, again revolted. Sargon returned with the Assyrian army in 720 BC, and pacified the... of Sargon II), and settling people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath and Sepharvaim in their place...

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Cimmerians

are ethnically same or related peoples. Assyrian annals mention the Cimmerians in the time of Sargon II and Esarhaddon. In the early twentieth century the home of the Cimmerians in the Caucasus led to...

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Classical authorities of Babylonia and Assyria

Mardokempados (Merodach-Baladan) 12 Arkeanos (Sargon II) Interregnum Hagisa 1 month Belibos (702 BC) 3...

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Harran

Sargon II later restored. It was the centre of a considerable commerce, trading with Tyre (Ezekiel...

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Kommagene

as Kummuhu, it was normally an ally, but annexed as province in 708 BC under Sargon II of Assyria...

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Larnaca

have belonged to Tyre. The discovery here of an official monument of Sargon II suggests that Citium...

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Sao-Sau

Sargent, Martin, comedian Sargo Sargon II of Assyria, (reigned 721 BC-705 BC), Akkad Sari - Sart...

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