Realm · approximate borders · 1810–1600 BCE

Yamhad

Amorite kingdom centred on Halab (Aleppo), the leading Syrian power of the 18th century BCE (Yarim-Lim I and Hammurabi I had some twenty vassal kings). The core realm ran from the Amuq to the Euphrates bend and south to the Qatna frontier.

Ended by the Hittite conquests of Hattusili I and Mursili I (Aleppo destroyed c. 1600/1595 BCE). Middle chronology. Sources: Wikipedia 'Yamhad'.

See Yamhad on the map in 1810 BCE

On the map: 1810–1600 BCE
Capital: Halab (Aleppo)

Rulers named in the sources

Sumu-Epuh c. 1810–1780 BCE
Yarim-Lim I c. 1780–1764 BCE
Hammurabi I c. 1764–1750 BCE
Hammurabi III c. 1620–1600 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.