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The inhabitants spoke the Amorite language, an extinct early Northwest Semitic language classified as a westernmost or Amorite-specific dialect of Ugaritic. [5] [6] [7]The kingdom shares a name with the eponymous god Amurru.
[3] In older literature, as late as in the 1980s, it was commonly assumed that Amurru was in origin an eponymous deity of the Amorites themselves. [4] [3] However, the modern consensus is that he was instead a Mesopotamian god representing the westerners. [5] [3] He has been characterized as an "ideological construct." [5]
The Amur River (Russian: река Амур) or Heilong River (Chinese: 黑龙江) [8] is a perennial river in Northeast Asia, forming the natural border between the Russian Far East and Northeast China (historically the Outer and Inner Manchuria). The Amur proper is 2,824 km (1,755 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 1,855,000 km 2 (716,000 ...
Location of the Ancient Northern East Asians [1] Location of the major sub-groups within the Ancient Northern East Asians, with the Yellow River farmers in the Yellow River valley, and Ancient Northeast Asians (or Amur ancestry) above [2] Contribution of Ancient East Asian lineages to the formation of the Ancient North Eurasians (ANE), Ancient Paleo-Siberians (APS), and Native Americans ...
The Turkic princess Ashina (551–582 CE), whose remains were sequenced, was found to be genetically closely associated with Ancient Northeast Asians (with 97.7% Northeast Asian ancestry, 2.3% West Eurasian ancestry dating back to around 3000 years ago, and no Chinese ("Yellow River") admixture), which according to Yang et al supports a ...
The Siberian branch of the Russian Geographical Society was founded at the same time in Irkutsk, and afterwards became a permanent centre for the exploration of Siberia; while the opening of the Amur and Sakhalin attracted Richard Maack, Schmidt, Glehn, Gustav Radde, and Leopold von Schrenck, who created works on the flora, fauna, and ...
The Qing were unable to immediately mount a military expedition against the Russians at this time due to being hampered by a lack of supplies in the Amur region. [ 9 ] Russian territory west of Lake Baikal was consolidated in 1661 with the foundation of Irkutsk ; however, expansion south was halted in 1663 with a defeat in Uriankhai territory.
According to them, the native people living on the Ussuri and on the Amur above the mouth of the Dondon River (which falls into the Amur between today's Khabarovsk and Komsomolsk-on-Amur) were known as Yupi Tartars, while the name of the people living on the Dondon and on the Amur below Dondon was transcribed by the Jesuits into French as ...