Realm · approximate borders · 1830–1761 BCE

Mari (Lim dynasty)

The Amorite Lim dynasty of Mari controlled the middle Euphrates from Terqa to the Suhum border and the lower Khabur. Between the two periods of Lim rule Mari was held by Shamshi-Adad's Kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia (his son Yasmah-Addu as king); Hammurabi of Babylon conquered Zimri-Lim in 1761 and destroyed the city c.

1759 BCE. Middle chronology. Sources: Wikipedia 'Mari, Syria'.

See Mari (Lim dynasty) on the map in 1830 BCE

On the map: 1830–1761 BCE
Capital: Mari (Tell Hariri)

Rulers named in the sources

Yaggid-Lim c. 1830–1820 BCE
Yahdun-Lim c. 1810–1794 BCE
Sumu-Yamam c. 1793–1792 BCE
Zimri-Lim c. 1775–1761 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.