Nineveh

is also mentioned in the 15th century 3.0. As syria appears to have been colonised from Babylonia by a Semitic race; and even in 1850 B.c. its ruler, Ismi-Dagon, was a Patesi or subordinate ruler, apparently under Babylon. The first known king was Bel-kapkapu about 1700 B.c, A ur-yuballid was a powerful independent monarch in the time of A me no phis IV of Egypt, and invaded Syria. He placed his grandson (son of the Ka ite monarch Burn a bur i as) on the throne of Babylon about 1400 B.c. From that date till 1012 B.c. there was a struggle for supremacy between the Kas sites and the A yrians, with intervals of alliance when boundaries were fixed, and with varying fortunes. A ur-risilim of As syria invaded Syria, as far as Beirat, about 1150 B.c., as did his son Tiglath Pileser I, who was however defeated, about 1113 Be, by Marduk-nadinakhi, son of Nabukudurusur I—a powerful Semitic king of Babylon. ‘The A yrian records are defective after this until, about 845 B.c., we find Shalmaneser III ruling from Syria to the borders of India, and defeating the Syrian league in that year. In 840 he received tribute from Jehu, King of Israel. In 732 Be. 204