Kammanu/Meliddu (kingdom)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
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History
A kingdom in eastern Anatolia, whose capital is classical Melitene (modern Arslantepe). Meliddu, which is sometimes referred to as Kammanu, was conquered by the eighth-century-BC Assyrian king Sargon II and its territory was given to Kummuhu.
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- Kammanu/Meliddu (kingdom) abuts Gurgum (kingdom) (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Kammanu/Meliddu (kingdom) part of (regional) Hatti (region) (1000 BC - 720 BC)
- Kammanu/Meliddu (kingdom) abuts Tabālu (region) (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Kammanu/Meliddu (kingdom) abuts Urartu (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Anduarsalia part of (administrative) Kammanu/Meliddu (kingdom) (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Anmurru part of (administrative) Kammanu/Meliddu (kingdom) (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Arslantepe (Melid) capital of Kammanu/Meliddu (kingdom) (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Ellibir part of (administrative) Kammanu/Meliddu (kingdom) (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Gauraina part of (administrative) Kammanu/Meliddu (kingdom) (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Kasku (region) abuts Kammanu/Meliddu (kingdom) (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Kiakis part of (administrative) Kammanu/Meliddu (kingdom) (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Luhsu part of (administrative) Kammanu/Meliddu (kingdom) (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Purṭir part of (administrative) Kammanu/Meliddu (kingdom) (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Timur (mountain) part of (physical/topographic) Kammanu/Meliddu (kingdom) (1000 BC - 720 BC)
- Uargin part of (administrative) Kammanu/Meliddu (kingdom) (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Usi part of (administrative) Kammanu/Meliddu (kingdom) (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Usian part of (administrative) Kammanu/Meliddu (kingdom) (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Šindarara part of (administrative) Kammanu/Meliddu (kingdom) (720 BC - 540 BC)
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According to A. Bagg (RGTC 7/1, 257), Kammanu (that is, Melid) was made into an Assyrian province in 712 BC by Sargon II (r. 721-705 BC). Til-garimmu, one of Melid's walled cities, became the seat of an Assyrian governor. K. Radner (RLAss 11, 42-68, esp. pp. 48-49 no. 13), however, proposes that the area once occupied by Melid/Kammanu was annexed into the kingdom of Kummuhu, which in 708 BC became the Province of the Commander-in-Chief on the Left after Kummuhu was defeated by Sargon.
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Kammanu/Meliddu (kingdom): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/319432673> [accessed: 21 December 2024]
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