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Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian period: rulers and royal family

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Yaggid-Lim

Yaggid-Lim, also known as Iagitlim, was an Amorite ruler of the early 19th century BC, father of Yahdun-Lim of Mari; scholars disagree whether he reigned at Mari or Suprum.

Yagli-El

Yagli-El was a king of Dilmun, the ancient land centered on Bahrain, who ruled around 1700 BCE and was buried in a Royal Mound at A'ali.

Yahdun-Lim

Yahdun-Lim, also written Iahdun-Lim, was an Amorite king of Mari on the middle Euphrates, reigning about 1810 to 1795 BC and known for canal building and wars with Shamshi-Adad I.

Yakmeni

Yakmeni is an early figure in the Assyrian King List, number 23 among the ten ancestral kings, listed as son of Yakmesi and father of Yazkur-ilu.

Yakmesi

Yakmesi is the twenty-second ruler on the Assyrian King List, given as son of Ilu-Mer and father of Yakmeni, with no reign length recorded and no attestation outside the list.

Yangi

Yangi, also transliterated Janqi or Iangi, is the third of seventeen legendary tent-dwelling kings in the Assyrian King List, placed before 2000 BC by convention.

Yasmah-Adad

Yasmah-Adad (Yasmaḫ-Addu) was a king of Mari on the middle Euphrates in the early second millennium BC, installed by his father Shamshi-Adad I and driven out by Zimri-Lim.

Zabaia

Zabaia, also rendered Zabâia, was the fourth ruler of the Larsa dynasty in southern Mesopotamia, reigning nine years, c. 1941–1933 BC, and rebuilding the Ebabbar temple.

Zambiya

Zambiya, also Zambija, was a king of the First Dynasty of Isin in southern Mesopotamia who reigned 1836–1834 BC, between Enlil-bani and Iter-pisha, and rebuilt Isin's great wall.

Zimri-Lim

Zimri-Lim was the last king of Mari, a major 18th-century BC center on the Euphrates, reigning about 1775 to 1761 BCE until Hammurabi of Babylon destroyed the city.