Assyria and the West: Syria and the Levant
Assyria and the West: Syria and the Levant
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亚述和西方:叙利亚和黎凡特
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10.1002/9781118325216.ch13
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2017
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A. M. Bagg
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A. M. Bagg
The Assyrian expansion to the west began in earnest with Shalmaneser III. Over the course of twenty‐one campaigns and more than thirty years, Shalmaneser succeeded in making many countries in Hatti (northern Syria), as well as the lands Que and Tabalu, his vassals. Moreover, three important coastal cities (Tyre, Sidon, and Byblos) paid tribute, and Jehu, the king of Israel, submitted to Assyrian power. Between 740 and 732 BCE, a large part of the Syria and the Levant was annexed by the Assyrian empire, Tiglath‐pileser III. When Shalmaneser died in the winter of 722/721 BCE, the Assyrian army returned to Assyria, and the annexation and reorganization of Samaria was postponed. With Sargon II, Assyria's second extensive annexation phase in the west began. Sargon led half of his campaigns to Syria and the Levant, where the northwestern region, in particular, required his attention.