Realm · approximate borders · 2400–2300 BCE

Ebla

The first Eblaite kingdom of the archive period (Royal Palace G), the dominant power of north-western Syria until its destruction c. 2300 BCE, attributed to Sargon or Naram-Sin of Akkad.

The archive names many dependent towns; the extent (Amuq to the Euphrates bend at Emar, south to Hama) follows the usual modern reading and is approximate. Sources: Wikipedia 'Ebla'.

See Ebla on the map in 2400 BCE

On the map: 2400–2300 BCE
Capital: Ebla (Tell Mardikh)

Rulers named in the sources

Igrish-Halam c. 24th century BCE
Irkab-Damu c. 24th century BCE
Isar-Damu c. 24th century BCE

States of the Middle East, 2400 BCE–1886

Among the smaller states of Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, Arabia, Iran and the South Caucasus were Bronze and Iron Age kingdoms (Ebla, Mari, Yamhad, Kizzuwatna, Arzawa, Ugarit, Aram-Damascus, Ammon, Moab, Edom, Mannaea), the city-kingdoms of Cyprus, Characene, Elymais, Hatra, Kinda and Muhammad's state at Medina; the Caucasian kingdoms and emirates of the 9th–12th centuries (Tbilisi, Lori, Kakheti-Hereti, Syunik, Kars) and the dynasties of the 'Iranian intermezzo' (Sallarids, Rawwadids, Hasanwayhids, Kakuyids, Marwanids, Uqaylids, Mirdasids, Mazyadids, Ikhshidids); the Burids of Damascus, the Nizari Ismaili castles, the atabegs of Azerbaijan, Fars, Luristan and Kerman; the eastern Anatolian beyliks (Saltukids, Mengujekids, Shah-Armens, Artuqids, Eretnids, Kadi Burhan al-Din, Erzincan, Tacettin, Lâdik, Alaiye); the Mamluk pashas of Baghdad; Arabian states from the Sulayhids to the Jabrids, Bani Khalid, Kathiri, Mahra and Lahej; and the South Caucasus khanates of 1747–1828. Few pre-modern sources describe frontiers.