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Adab (Sumerian: ππ£π Adab ki, [1] spelled UD.NUN KI [2]) was an ancient Sumerian city between Girsu and Nippur, lying about 35 kilometers southeast of the latter.It was located at the site of modern Bismaya or Bismya in the Al-QΔdisiyyah Governorate of Iraq.
Lugal-Anne-Mundu appears in the Sumerian King List, as the first and only ruler of the Dynasty of Adab. Lugal-Anne-Mundu (Sumerian: ππππ¬π¦π, lugal-an-neβ-mu-un-duβ, c. 24th century BC) was the most important king of the city-state of Adab in Sumer.
This article lists the largest human settlements in the world (by population) over time, as estimated by historians, from 7000 BC when the largest human settlement was a proto-city in the ancient Near East with a population of about 1,000–2,000 people, to the year 2000 when the largest human settlement was Tokyo with 26 million.
The dominant political structure was the city-state in which a large urban center dominated the surrounding rural settlements. The territories of these city-states were in turn delimited by other city-states that were organized along the same principles. The most important centers were Uruk, Ur, Lagash, Adab, and Umma-Gisha. Available texts ...
During the Akkadian Empire period the Gutians slowly grew in strength and then established a capital at the Early Dynastic city of Adab. [13] The Gutians eventually overran Akkad, and as the King List tells us, their army also subdued Uruk for hegemony of Sumer, in about 2147–2050 BC.
The text is best known under its modern name Sumerian King List, which is often abbreviated to SKL in scholarly literature. A less-used name is the Chronicle of the One Monarchy, reflecting the notion that, according to this text, there could ever be only one city exercising kingship over Mesopotamia. [2]
Adab or ADAB may refer to: Places. Adab (city), a city of ancient Sumer `Adab, a village in Yemen; Al Dhafra Air Base, a military installation of the United Arab Emirates Air Force near Abu Dhabi, UAE; Literary and cultural use. Adab (Islam), the category of Islamic law dealing with etiquette; Adab (literature), the classical Islamic literature ...
He wrote a book, published in 1912, about his excavations of the ancient Sumerian city of Adab, located in what is now Bismya/Bismaya in Iraq. The book contains lively accounts of his excavations in Adab and discoveries of a sequence of buildings from the prehistoric into the reign of Ur-Nammu in the ancient Sumerian city. [3]