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The Sumerian King List (abbreviated SKL) or Chronicle of the One Monarchy is an ancient literary composition written in Sumerian that was likely created and redacted to legitimize the claims to power of various city-states and kingdoms in southern Mesopotamia during the late third and early second millennium BC.
Kings of the Dúnedain In J. R. R. Tolkien 's Middle-earth writings, the Dúnedain ( / ˈ d uː n ɛ d aɪ n / ; singular: Dúnadan , "Man of the West") were a race of Men , also known as the Númenóreans or Men of Westernesse (translated from the Sindarin term).
[T 16] Númenóreans had established good relations with Gil-galad, the king of the High Elves of the northwest of Middle-earth, whose ships sailed from the Grey Havens. [T 6] Aldarion founded the Uinendili, a guild of sea-farers, in honour of Uinen, goddess of the Sea. [T 2] [T 6] He succeeded to the throne and became known as the Mariner-king ...
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Lists of ancient kings are organized by region and peoples, and include kings recorded in ancient history (3000 BC – 1700 AD) and in mythology. Southern Europe [ edit ]
Before the rise of the Akkadian Empire in the 24th century BC, Mesopotamia was fragmented into a number of city states. Whereas some surviving Mesopotamian documents, such as the Sumerian King List, describe this period as one where there was only one legitimate king at any one given time, and kingship was transferred from city to city sequentially, the historical reality was that there were ...
List of monarchs may refer to: List of current sovereign monarchs; List of current constituent monarchs; List of monarchs by nickname; List of fictional monarchs;
A section of the fragmentary king list of Ramesses II from ancient Egypt. A regnal list or king list is, at its simplest, a list of successive monarchs.Some regnal lists may give the relationship between successive monarchs (e.g., son, brother), the length of reign of each monarch or annotations on important reigns.