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Group: Yamhad, or Yamkhad, Kingdom of
People: Sargon the Great
Topic: Conquest of the Desert
Location: Ramoth-Gilead Jarash Jordan

Yamhad, or Yamkhad, Kingdom of

Years: 1800BCE - 1550BCE

Yamhad (also written Yamkhad or Jamhad) is an ancient Amorite kingdom centered at Ḥalab (or Ḥalba, modern day Aleppo).

A substantial Hurrian population also settles in the kingdom, and the Hurrian culture influences the area.

The kingdom is powerful during the Middle Bronze Age, ca.

1800-1600 BCE.

Its biggest rival is Qatna further south.

Yamhad is finally destroyed by the Hittites in the sixteenth century BCE.