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Emporia dispute
The Emporia dispute was a territorial conflict between Carthage and the Numidian king Masinissa over the fertile Emporia district on the Lesser Syrtis, running from 193 to 146 BC.
Emutbal
Emutbal, also written Yamut-Bal, was an ancient land east of the Tigris River, rising in 1834 BC under the Amorite Kudur-Mabuk and taken over by Hammurabi in 1763 BC.
En (office)
En, meaning "lord", was a Sumerian title used by rulers of Uruk and, later, by high priestesses of the moon god Nanna at Ur, attested from about 3000 BC.
En-me-nuna
En-me-nuna is a legendary early ruler of Kish named in the Sumerian King List, fifth of the First Dynasty, assigned a 660-year reign and succeeded by his son Melem-Kish.
En-men-dur-ana
En-men-dur-ana, also written Enmeduranki, is the legendary seventh antediluvian king of Sippar in the Sumerian King List, a figure later linked to the biblical patriarch Enoch.
En-men-gal-ana
En-men-gal-ana (Sumerian en-me-en-gal-an-na; Enmegalanna) is a legendary antediluvian king of Bad-tibira in the Sumerian King List, second between En-men-lu-ana and Dumuzid, with a mythical reign of 28,800 years.
En-men-lu-ana
En-men-lu-ana is the third legendary antediluvian king in the Sumerian King List, a ruler of Bad-tibira credited with a 43,200-year reign and known only from later copies of the list.
En-nun-tarah-ana
En-nun-tarah-ana is the ninth king of the First Dynasty of Uruk in the Sumerian King List, credited with an 8-year reign and known from no contemporary inscription.
En-sipad-zid-ana
En-sipad-zid-ana is the legendary antediluvian king of Larak in the Sumerian King List, the third of five pre-Flood cities, credited with a reign of 28,800 years that scholars read as a sexagesimal construct.
En-tarah-ana
En-tarah-ana is the fourth legendary king of Kish in the Sumerian King List, credited with a reign of 420 years, 3 months, and 3 1/2 days.
Enakalle
Enakalle, also written Enakale or Enakalli, was ruler of the Sumerian city-state of Umma around 2500 BC, who made peace with Eannatum of Lagash and was father of Ur-Lumma.
Enannatum I
Enannatum I, also written Enanatum I, was a ruler of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash around 2425–2420 BC, brother and successor of Eannatum and father of Entemena.
Enannatum II
Enannatum II was a ruler of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash around 2390 BC, son and successor of Entemena and the last king of its First Dynasty.
Enannatumma
Enannatumma, also written Enanatuma, was an en-priestess of the moon god Nanna at Ur, a daughter of King Išme-Dagan of Isin, who held the office for about 67 years until her death around 1886 BC.
Enbi-Ishtar
Enbi-Ishtar (Enbi-Ištar) was a king of Kish in southern Mesopotamia in the mid-third millennium BC, captured by Enshakushanna of Uruk, who destroyed Kish and dedicated its spoil to Enlil at Nippur.
End of the A-Group
The end of the A-Group is the disappearance, or transformation, of Lower Nubia's earliest named archaeological culture around 2900-2800 BC, coinciding with halted Egyptian exchange and First Dynasty expansion.
End of the Kingdom of Kush
The end of the Kingdom of Kush was the dissolution of the Meroitic state around AD 300–350, traditionally linked to Ezana of Aksum's conquest of Meroë.
Endaruta
Endaruta, also read Intaruta, was ruler of the Canaanite city-state of Akshapa, biblical Achshaph, near Acco in western Galilee, in the mid-14th century BC, known from three Amarna letters.
Endubis
Endubis, also spelled Endybis, was a king of Aksum in the late third century AD and the earliest Aksumite ruler known to have struck coins, in gold, silver, and bronze.
Enetarzi
Enentarzi, also written En-entar-zi, was ruler (ensi) of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash in the Early Dynastic IIIb period, after serving as high administrator of the temple of Ningirsu at Girsu; his son Lugalanda succeeded him.
Enhegal
Enhegal, also written Enkhegal, was one of the earliest known rulers of Lagash, a Sumerian city-state in southern Mesopotamia, flourishing around 2570 BC on the middle chronology.
Enki and Ninhursag
Enki and Ninhursag (Enki and Ninḫursaĝa) is a Sumerian literary myth of about 280 lines, set in Dilmun, where Enki fathers goddesses and Ninhursag heals his eightfold sickness.
Enlil-bani
Enlil-bani was the tenth king of the First Dynasty of Isin in Mesopotamia, credited with a 24-year reign dated 1860–1837 BC amid conflict with rival Larsa.
Enlil-kudurri-usur
Enlil-kudurri-usur, also known as Enlil-kudurrī-uṣur, was the 81st king of Assyria, a son of Tukulti-Ninurta I who ruled five years around 1196–1192 BC before Ninurta-apil-Ekur seized the throne.
Enlil-nadin-ahi
Enlil-nadin-ahi (Enlil-nādin-aḫi) was the 36th and final king of the Kassite dynasty of Babylon, reigning ca. 1157–1155 BC; his defeat by an Elamite king ended the dynasty.
Enlil-nadin-apli
Enlil-nādin-apli was a king of Babylon, the third ruler of the Second Dynasty of Isin, who reigned four years between Nebuchadnezzar I and Marduk-nādin-ahi in the late second millennium BC.
Enlil-nadin-shumi
Enlil-nādin-šumi was a Kassite king of Babylon, 29th in the dynasty between Kaštiliašu IV and Kadašman-Ḫarbe II, appointed under Assyrian control after Tukulti-Ninurta I's conquest of Babylonia around 1225 BC.
Enlil-nasir I
Enlil-nasir I (Enlil-nāṣir I) was king of Assyria in the early-to-mid 15th century BC, recorded in the Assyrian King List as son of Puzur-Aššur III.
Enlil-nasir II
Enlil-nasir II was a king of Assyria in the fifteenth century BC who, according to the Assyrian King List, seized the throne from his brother Ashur-nadin-ahhe I and ruled six years.
Enlil-nirari
Enlil-nirari, also known as Enlil-nārāri, was a king of Assyria in the early Middle Assyrian period, the son of Aššur-uballiṭ I and father of Arik-den-ili.