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Kingdoms of Anatolia, Syro-Palestine & Arabia, Mesopotamia, and the Iranian plateau

ENTIRE REGION

Prehistory:

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Early Cultures in the Near East

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Early Cultures in the Levant

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Early Neolithic Farmer Cultures

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South Indo-European Tribes (Index)

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Ancient Mesopotamia (Index)

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ANATOLIA

Bronze Age States:

Bronze Age Anatolian States (Index)

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Post-Hittite States & Tribes:

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Atyad Kings of Maeonia / Maionia (Tantalids)

Heraclid Kings of Maeonia / Lydia (Tylonids)

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Urartu / Biainili (Uruatri)

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Iron Age States & Tribes:

Alarodioi

Armenia

Armenia (Arteshid Kingdom)

Kingdom of Lesser Armenia

Armenia (Arsacid Kingdom)

Caria (Hecatomnids)

Halicarnassus (Tyrants)

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Persian Governors of Pergamum (Eurypontids)

Persian Satrapies (Index)

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Hellenic Kingdoms:

Greek Empire Satrapies (Index)

Greek Empire Satraps (Index)

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Antigonid (Hellenic) Empire

Lysimachian (Hellenic) Empire

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Post-Hellenic States:

Greater Armenia (Persarmenia)

Kingdom of Lesser Armenia (Erzindjan)

Marzban (Persian Armenia)

Persian Marzban of Dwin

Persian Marzban of Eastern Armenia

Governors of Western Armenia

Governors of Western Armenia (Byzantines)

Principality of Armenia

Kingdom of Greater Armenia (Bagratids)

Kingdom of Lesser Armenia (Erzindjan / Cilicia)

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Turkic-Era States:

Seljuq Sultanate of Rum (Iconium / Konya)

Outremer / The Crusades

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The Black Sheep Emirate / Qara Qoyunlu

The White Sheep Emirate / Ak Qoyunlu

Ottoman Empire

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Modern Turkey / T�rkiye

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SYRO-PALESTINE & ARABIA

Syria:

Cities, States & Groups of Syria (Index)

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Greater Syria

Later Syria

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Seleucid (Hellenic) Empire

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Semites / Semitic-Speakers

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Canaan (Old Testament Period)

Canaan (Israelite Settlement Period)

Canaan (Independent City States)

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Israelites & Israel (Index)

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Roman Judea

Idumaea

Roman Palestine

Bishops of Aelia Capitolina

Bishops of Jerusalem

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Phoenicia & Later:

Later Canaan & Phoenicia (Index)

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Persian Satraps of Phoenicia

Persian Vassal Kings of Arvad / Arados

Persian Vassal Kings of Byblos

Persian Vassal Kings of Sidon

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Argead Byblos

Argead Sidon

Seleucid Marathos

Seleucid Philadelphia

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Arabic States:

Al-Natah

Saba / Sa'Abia / Sheba

Kedarites / Qedarites

Kingdom of Kedar / Qedar

Nabataea / Nabatu

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Persian Satraps of Arabāya

Kedarite Bedawi Kings of Sth Jordan & Negev

Kingdom of Nabataea

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Islamic Empire:

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Rightly Guided Caliphs / Rashidun Caliphate

Umayyad / Omayyad Caliphate

Abbasid Caliphate

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Islamic Palestine

Islamic Khorasan

Hashemite Mecca & Hijaz

Sharifs of Mecca

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Islamic Syria:

Islamic Syria (Index)

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Crusader States (Outremer):

Christian Counts of Edessa (1098)

Norman Principality of Antioch (1099)

Crusader Palestine (1099)

Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099)

County of Tripoli (1109)

Kingdom of Jerusalem at Acre (1187)

Second Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem (1229)

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Teutonic Knights

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Islamic Palestine Restored (1244)

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Ottoman Era States:

Ottoman Damascus

Ottoman Palestine

Grand Sharifs of Mecca

Shihabi Amirs of Lebanon

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Sheikhdom of Kuwait

House of Su'ud

Sultans of Oman & Zanzibar

Bahrain

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Emirs & Grand Sharifs of Mecca

M�tesarrifs of Jerusalem

Sultans of Oman

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Transition States:

Kings of the Hijaz & Mecca

British Mandate Palestine

Hashemite Greater Syria

Hashemite Iraq

Hashemite Transjordan

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Modern States:

Bahrain

Iraq

Islamic State (in Iraq & Syria) / Daesh

MESOPOTAMIA

Ancient Mesopotamia (Index)

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Sumer

Kings 'Before the Flood'

Kings 'After the Flood'

Amorites:

Old Babylonian Mesopotamia (Index)

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Babylonia:

Babylonian Empire (Old Babylonian)/Dynasty I

Sealand Kings of Babylonia (�e�-ku) / Dynasty II

Kassite Kings of Babylonia / Dynasty III

Isin Kings of Babylonia / Dynasty IV

Kassite Kings of Babylonia / Dynasty V

Kassite Kings of Babylonia / Dynasty VI

Elamite Kings of Babylonia / Dynasty VII

Uncertain Kings of Babylonia / Dynasty VIII

Chaldaean Kings of Babylonia / Dynasty IX (& X)

Neo-Babylonian Empire / Dynasty X (XI)

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Assyria:

Early Period

Old Kingdom Period / Early Dynasty

Vassal Kings under Babylonia

Adasi Vassal Kings under Babylonia

Adasi Vassal Kings under Mitanni

Middle Kingdom Period / Adasi Dynasty

Neo-Assyrian Empire / Ashur-Rabi Dynasty

Sargonid Dynasty

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Hurrian States:

Hurrian State of Urkesh & Nawar (Nagar)

Hurrian Kingdom of Arrapha / Arrapkha

Hurrian Empire of Mitanni (Naharina / Hanigalbat)

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Northern Mesopotamia
(Second Millennium BC):

Andarig / Anderiq

Apum / Abum (City State of Shehna)

Razama of the Yamutbal

Terqa (State of Hana / Hanna / Khana)

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Mesopotamia
(First Millennium BC):

Persian Satraps of Athura

Persian Satraps of Babylonia

Argead Dynasty in Athura

Argead Dynasty in Babylonia

Argead Dynasty in Northern Mesopotamia

Seleucid (Hellenic) Empire

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Persian Empire Satraps (Index)

Greek Empire Satraps (Index)

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PERSIA & EASTWARDS

Early States:

Ancient Mesopotamia (Index)

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Elam / Haltamtu / Susiana

Marhashi

Simashki

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Media (Amadai)

Median Satraps of Verk�na

Parsua

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INDEX:

A fully detailed list of all of the satraps under the Persian empire (click on image to visit index)

Persia:

Achaemenid Persia (Persian Empire)

Persian & Greek Satrapies (Index)

Persian Empire Satraps (Index)

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Argead Dynasty in Media

Argead Dynasty in Parthia

Argead Dynasty in Persis

Argead Dynasty in Susiana

Macedonian Media

Macedonian Parthia

Macedonian Persis

Greek Empire Satraps (Index)

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Arsacid (Parthian) Persia

Sassanid Persia

Buwayid (Buyid) Amirs of Iraq

Seljuq (Great Sultans) Dynasty

Il-Khan Dynasty

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Il-Khan Post-Dynasty Puppets

Jalayirid Sultanate

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Timurid Dynasty

Safavid Shahs of Iran

Afsharid Shahs of Iran

Zand Shahs of Iran

Qajar Shahs of Iran

Pahlevi Shahs of Iran

Modern Iran

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