Ummān-manda

a Pleiades place resource

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tags: ANE

Akkadian Umman-manda, meaning “barbarian horde (lit. “army/troops of Manda”), is used in cuneiform texts composed during the first and second millennia BC as a stock of ethnographic term and as a word denoting Medes (or Cimmerians).

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Geographic Names:
- Ummān-manda (Akkadian, 2000 BC - 540 BC)

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Place type:
unlocated, people, tribe (historical cultural group)

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Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jamie Novotny, 'Ummān-manda: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/56567732> [accessed: 15 March 2025]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/56567732 |title=Places: 56567732 (Ummān-manda) |author=Novotny, J. |accessdate=March 15, 2025 1:12 am |publisher=Pleiades}}