THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 850–553 BCE

Edom

Kingdom south of the Zered as far as the Gulf of Aqaba, with its capital at Bozrah (Busayra); it broke from Judah in the mid-9th century BCE, paid tribute to Assyria from 734, and fell to Nabonidus of Babylon c. 552 BCE.

The western border on the Arabah is approximate; Edom later expanded into the Negev. Sources: Wikipedia 'Edom'; Shepherd plate 5.

See Edom on the map in 850 BCE

On the map
850–553 BCE
Capital
Bozrah (Busayra)

Rulers named in the sources

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.

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