Ashur Dan III

Ashur-dan III, son of Adad-nirari III , took the throne after his brother Salmanasar IV .

The reign of Ashur Dan III was a difficult period in the history of Assyria. During his reign, King Urartu Argishti I of Urartu, fulfilling his plan to cover the possessions of Assyria from the east, continues to make trips to Manna and areas further south. In the northwest, Assyrians also lose their possessions. If eponym 799 BC. er Marduk-shem-ani was the governor of Amed, Mallanu, Alzi, Sukhma, and other areas in the Upper Tigris and Euphrates , then it was already known as 768 BC. er Aplaya was the governor of only one Amed.

The “List of Eponyms” gives us a brief listing of the campaigns of Ashur-Dan III: in 771 BC. er - in Gananata, in 770 BC. er - against Marad (probably, in Phenicia ), in 769 BC. er - against the country Itu'a, with which his father Adad-Nirari III fought a stubborn fight, in 767 BC. er - in Gananata, in 768 BC. er - against the Medes , 765 BC. er - against . However, with the exception of this, nothing more is known about these campaigns.

It was also restless in Assyria itself. In 765 BC. er a plague broke out. In 763 BC er began a rebellion of the lower classes in Ashshura that lasted two years. In 761 BC. er rebelled arrapha . With great difficulty, this uprising was crushed in 760 BC. er , but the following year, a rebellion broke out in , and at the same time an epidemic began again that squinted the population. And only in 758 BC. er By suppressing the rebellion in Gusan, Ashur-dan III succeeded in restoring relative peace in the country. In 755 BC. er Ashur-dan again undertook the campaign against Khatarika.

In the 9th year of the rule of Ashur-Dan III, in the month of the Siman, an was observed in Ashshur, which, according to modern calculations, falls by 15 (according to more accurate calculations for 8) June 763 BC. er This date is the basis for Assyrian and Urartian chronology.

Ashur-dan III ruled Assyria for 18 years. After his death, the power of the kingdom was inherited by his brother Ashur-nirari V.

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