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Himilco (navigator)
Himilco, also known as Himilcon, was a Carthaginian navigator who probably in the fifth century BC led an exploratory voyage from Gades north along the Atlantic coasts of Europe.
Himilco (officer of Hannibal)
Himilco was a Carthaginian officer in Hannibal's army during the Second Punic War, known for capturing Petelia in Bruttium after a months-long siege in 216 BC.
Himilco (son of Hanno II)
Himilco, son of Hanno, was a Carthaginian general who commanded in Sicily from 406 to 396 BC, took Akragas and Gela, and made peace with Dionysius I.
Himilco Phameas
Himilco Phameas, called Hamilcar Phameas by Polybius, was a Carthaginian cavalry commander in the Third Punic War who deserted to the Romans with 2,200 horsemen in 148 BC.
Himilco's Atlantic voyage
Himilco's Atlantic voyage was a Carthaginian exploring expedition, probably in the sixth or fifth century BC, in which Himilco sailed north from Gades (Cádiz) along the Atlantic coasts of Europe.
Himuili
Himuili (Ḫimuili) was a high official of the Hittite kingdom who held the office of BEL MADGALTI, "lord of the watchplace", a provincial governorship, at Maşat; his dates are uncertain.
Himyarite conquest of Hadramawt
The Himyarite conquest of Hadramawt was the annexation of the kingdom of Hadramawt in eastern Yemen by Himyar under King Shammar Yuhar'ish, around 300 CE.
Himyarite conquest of Qataban
The Himyarite conquest of Qataban (مملكة قتبان) was the 2nd-century AD fall of the South Arabian kingdom of Qataban, whose last capital was annexed by Hadramawt.
Himyarite conquest of Saba
The Himyarite conquest of Saba, also called the unification of Saba and Dhu Raydan, was Ḥimyar's takeover of the kingdom of Sabaʾ in ancient South Arabia around 275 CE.
Himyaritic language
Himyaritic, also called the Himyarite language, is a poorly attested language or dialect that medieval Arab grammarians attributed to the Ḥimyarites of ancient Yemen; its classification remains disputed.
Hippalus (admiral)
Hippalus, also spelled Hippalos, is a navigator credited by the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea with first sailing straight to India on the monsoon winds.
Hiram I
Hiram I, also spelled Hirom and called Huram in the Hebrew Bible, was king of Tyre for 34 years, c. 969–936 BC, allied with David and Solomon.
Hiram II (king of Tyre)
Hiram II (Hirom II) was king of Tyre from about 739 to 731/730 BC, an Assyrian vassal who paid tribute to Tiglath-pileser III and plotted with Rezin of Damascus.
Hiram III
Hiram III, also known as Hirom III, was a king of Tyre in the sixth century BC who reigned twenty years as a vassal under Babylonian overlordship.
Hishep-ratep
Hishep-ratep, also rendered Ḫišepratep, was the ninth ruler of the Awan dynasty of Elam around 2350 BC, known only from a king list found at Susa.
Hishutash
Hishutash, rendered Hišur in the Susa king list, was the fourth of twelve early Elamite rulers called kings of Awan in the third millennium BC, known from no other source.
Hismaic script
Hismaic, formerly called Thamudic E, is an Ancient North Arabian script and dialect of Old Arabic, carved mainly in the Ḥismā desert of southern Jordan and north-west Saudi Arabia.
Hissalel (king of Ammon)
Hissalel, also written Hissal'el or Hissa'il, was a king of the Ammonites in the 7th century BC, known from an inscribed bronze bottle found at Tell Siran, Jordan, in 1972.
History of Mesopotamia (Μεσοποταμία)
History of Mesopotamia (Μεσοποταμία), the Tigris-Euphrates land of Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, and Assyria: first cities at Uruk, first cuneiform writing, Sargon's first empire, ending with Cyrus's 539 BC capture of Babylon.
Hitlal-Erra
Hitlal-Erra was a shakkanakku, a governor-ruler of the city of Mari on the middle Euphrates, in office in the late 21st or early 20th century BC.
Hittite attack on Amki
The Hittite attack on Amki, also Amqa or Amqu, was a raid by King Suppiluliuma I on the Egyptian borderland of Amqu in the mid-14th century BC.
Hittite conquest of Ugarit
The Hittite conquest of Ugarit was the submission of the Syrian kingdom of Ugarit to Šuppiluliuma I around 1340 BC, making its king Niqmaddu II a vassal.
Hittite cuneiform
Hittite cuneiform is the adaptation of Mesopotamian cuneiform to write the Hittite language at Hattuša and other Anatolian sites from about 1650 to 1200 BC, producing an archive of about 30,000 tablets.
Hittite destruction of Qatna
The Hittite destruction of Qatna was the violent destruction of the Bronze Age Syrian kingdom's royal palace around 1340 BC by Hittite forces under Šuppiluliuma I.
Hittite land grants
Hittite land grants, also called donation texts, are royal cuneiform tablets granting state land to institutions and officials, issued chiefly from the 16th to 15th century BC.
Hittite laws
The Hittite laws, or Hittite Law Code, are a collection of about 200 legal clauses in Hittite cuneiform on two tablets, first written in Anatolia ca. 1650 BCE.
Hittite military oath
The Hittite military oath is a Hittite ritual text, cataloged as CTH 427, in which soldiers swore loyalty to the king of Hatti before the gods under curses.
Hittite sack of Ebla
The Hittite sack of Ebla was the destruction of the Syrian city of Ebla by Hittite forces around 1650 BC, ending its Old Syrian period; the perpetrator may have been Mursili I.
Hittite sun disk
The Hittite sun disk is a Hattian bronze ceremonial standard from the Early Bronze Age royal tombs of Alacahöyük, Turkey, now the symbol of Ankara.
Hittite treaty format
The Hittite treaty format is the fixed six-part structure of Hittite vassal treaties, in which the Great King imposed obligations confirmed by an oath before the gods.