Tukulti-Ninurta II succeeds his father Adad-nirari II …
Years: 897BCE - 886BCE
Tukulti-Ninurta II succeeds his father Adad-nirari II in 891 as king of Assyria.
During his brief reign, he consolidates the gains made by his father over the Syro-Hittites, Babylonians and Arameans, and successfully campaigns in the Zagros Mountains of Iran, subjugating the newly arrived Iranic peoples of the area, possibly including the Medes.
Locations
People
Groups
- Mesopotamia
- Iranian peoples
- Aramaeans
- Medes
- Syro-Hittite states
- Aram-Damascus (Syria), Kingdom of
- Babylon, Kingdom of
- Assyria, (New) Kingdom of (Neo-Assyrian Empire)
- Assyrian people
Topics
- Younger Subboreal Period
- Iron Age, Near and Middle East
- Assyrian Wars of c. 909-c. 746 BCE
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
