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Kushtashpi
Kushtashpi (Kuštašpi), recorded as Kuštašpili in Urartian annals, was a ruler of the Syro-Hittite kingdom of Kummuh on the upper Euphrates in the 740s and 730s BC.
Kuzi-Teshub
Kuzi-Teshub (Kuzi-Teššub) was king of Carchemish around the end of the second millennium BC, son of Talmi-Teshub, whose reign bridged the Hittite empire's fall and the Neo-Hittite kingdoms.
Larama I
Larama I, also read Laramas, was a king of the Late Hittite kingdom of Gurgum, centered on modern Kahramanmaraş in southeastern Turkey, from about 960 BC.
Lubarna I
Lubarna I was king of Patina (Unqi), a Syro-Anatolian kingdom in the Amuq Plain of southern Turkey, who paid tribute to Assyria around 870 BC.
Lubarna II
Lubarna II, also known as Lubarna of Patina, was king of Patina (Unqi), a Syro-Anatolian kingdom on the Amuq Plain, assassinated by his people in 829 BC.
Mati'ilu of Arpad
Mati'ilu, also Mati'-El or Matiel, was king of the Aramean kingdom of Arpad in northern Syria, flourishing from about 754 to 740 BC; he was the son of 'Atar-samak.
Melid
Halpasulupi was an early ruler of Melid (Malizi), an Iron Age kingdom at Arslantepe near modern Malatya in eastern Turkey, attested by Luwian hieroglyphic inscriptions of the 12th and 11th centuries BC.
Mutallu
Mutallu, called Muwattalli in Assyrian records, was the last attested king of Kummuh, a Late Hittite kingdom on the upper Euphrates annexed by Sargon II in 708 BC.
Muwatalli of Gurgum
Muwatalli, also written Muwattalli II and rendered Mutalli in Assyrian sources, was a ninth-century BC king of Gurgum, a Neo-Hittite kingdom at modern Kahramanmaraş, Turkey.
Panamuwa I
Panamuwa I, son of Qarli, was a king of Samʾal in the first half of the eighth century BCE, known from an inscription on a statue of Hadad.
Panamuwa II
Panamuwa II was a king of Sam'al, an Aramean city state at Zincirli, who reigned as a vassal of Assyria and died in battle in 732 BC.
Parita
Parita was a ruler of the Iron Age kingdom of Hamath in the Orontes valley of western Syria in the early 9th century BC, the father and predecessor of King Urḫilina.
Pisiris
Pisiris, also known as Pisiri, was the last independent king of Carchemish, a Neo-Hittite kingdom on the Euphrates, conquered by Sargon II of Assyria in 717 BC.
PUGNUS-mili II
PUGNUS-mili II was an early Iron Age king of Melid in south-eastern Turkey, known from inscribed reliefs at Arslantepe dated to the 12th–11th century BC.
Qalparunda (Patina)
Qalparunda, in Hieroglyphic Luwian Halparuntiya, was king of Patina (Assyrian Unqi), a Syro-Anatolian kingdom in the Amuq Valley of southern Turkey, who paid tribute to Shalmaneser III in 857 BC.
Qatazilu
Qatazilu, also rendered Qatazili, was a king of Kummuh, a Neo-Hittite kingdom on the upper Euphrates, known from the annals of Shalmaneser III c. 858 BC.
Rezin
Rezin, also known as Rahianu, Rasin, or Rasun, was the last king of Aram-Damascus, an Aramean kingdom centered on Damascus; he died when the city fell to Assyria in 732 BC.
Rezon (son of Eliada)
Rezon, son of Eliada, is an Aramean ruler known only from 1 Kings 11:23-25, where he flees Hadadezer of Zobah, seizes Damascus, and becomes an adversary of Solomon.
Runtiya
Runtiya was an early Iron Age ruler of Melid (Malizi), whose capital stood at Arslantepe near Malatya in eastern Turkey, in the 12th or 11th century BC.
Sangara of Carchemish
Sangara of Carchemish, also rendered Sangar, was king of Carchemish on the Euphrates in the mid-ninth century BC, known from the annals of Ashurnasirpal II and Shalmaneser III as a tributary, adversary, and subject.
Sapalulme
Sapalulme (Akkadian Šapalulme) was a king of Pattin, a Neo-Hittite kingdom in the Plain of Antioch, who resisted the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III in the campaigns of 858–857 BC.
Sastura
Sastura was the vizier, styled "first servant", of King Kamani of Karkemish, a Neo-Hittite kingdom on the Euphrates, in the early 8th century BC, known from hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions at the site.
Suhi II
Suhi II was a ruler of the Iron Age city of Karkemish on the Euphrates around 950 BC, best known as the builder of the Long Wall of Sculpture.
Suhis I
Suhis I, also known as Suhi I, was an early 10th-century BC ruler of Carchemish, in north Syria, who served Great King Ura-Tarhunza as his kinsman.
Sulumal
Sulumal was king of Melid, a Neo-Hittite kingdom on the Malatya Plain in eastern Anatolia, known from the tribute lists of Tiglath-pileser III of Assyria in the mid-eighth century BC.
Suppiluliuma (Patina)
Suppiluliuma of Patina, also known as Suppiluliuma of Unqi, was a Syro-Hittite king in the Amuq valley of north Syria, flourishing in the 9th century BC.
Surri
Surri was a usurper who seized the throne of the Syro-Hittite kingdom of Patina around 831 BC and was strangled to death by Assyrian forces.
Taita (Luwian king)
Taita (Luwian Taitas) was the earliest known king of Palistin, an early Iron Age kingdom of the 'Amuq plain and northern Syria, dated to the 11th or 10th century BC.
Tarhulara
Tarḫulara of Gurgum was a Neo-Hittite king whose capital, Marqasi, stood at modern Kahramanmaraş in Turkey; he paid tribute to Assyria before being murdered by his son.
Tarhunazi
Tarhunazi, also rendered Tarhunazas, was the last independent king of Melid, a Syro-Hittite kingdom at Arslantepe near Malatya, installed by Sargon II and deposed in 712 BC.