Realm · approximate borders · 1400–1185 BCE

Ugarit

Coastal kingdom of Ras Shamra between Mount Casius (Jebel Aqra) and the Siyannu border, a vassal first of Egypt and from c. 1350 BCE of the Hittites, but ruled by its own dynasty until its destruction c.

1185 BCE. Area about 2,000 km². Sources: Wikipedia 'Ugarit'.

See Ugarit on the map in 1400 BCE

On the map: 1400–1185 BCE
Capital: Ugarit (Ras Shamra)

Rulers named in the sources

Niqmaddu II c. 1350–1315 BCE
Niqmepa c. 1313–1260 BCE
Ammistamru II c. 1260–1230 BCE
Ammurapi c. 1215–1185 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.