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18th-century BC monarchs

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King of Kussara

Pitḫana (Pythanas) was a Middle Bronze Age king, during the late 18th century BC (middle chronology), of the Anatolian city of Kuššara, and a forerunner of the later Hittite dynasty.

Yasmah-Adad (Yasmah-Addu, Yasmakh-Adad, Ismah-Adad, Iasmakh-Adad; from Akkadian Ia-aš-ma-aḫ-dIM, in Amorite Yaśmaʿ-haddu) was the younger son of the Amorite king of Upper Mesopotamia, Shamshi-Adad I. He was put on throne of Mari by his father after a successful military attack following the assassination of Yahdun-Lim of Mari in 1796 B.C.E. He was responsible for the southwestern section of his father's kingdom (of which Mari was the capital), including the Balikh River, Habur River, and Euphrates River. Yasmah-Adad's administrative district bordered the state of Yamḫad and the Syrian steppe (

thumb|Yahdun-Lim's inscription on a disk Yahdun-Lim (or Yakhdunlim, Yahdunlim; from Akkadian ia-aḫ-du-un-li-im, in Amorite Yaʿdun-lîm; died 1797 BC) was a king of Mari. He was of Amorite origin, and became king after the death of his father Yaggid-Lim. Yahdun-Lim built Mari up to become one of the major powers of the region. He led a successful campaign to the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

Map showing where Piyusti ruled before he was defeated.|280px|thumb Piyusti or Piyušti was a king of Hattusa during the 17th century BC (short chronology). He is mentioned in the Anitta text as being defeated by Anitta on at least two occasions.

Sumu-Epuh (died 1780 BC) is the first attested king of Yamhad (Halab). He founded the Yamhad dynasty which controlled northern Syria throughout the 18th and 17th centuries BC.

Shibtu (died 1761 BC) was the wife of Zimri-Lim and queen consort of the ancient city-state of Mari in modern-day Syria. Historian Abraham Malamat described her as "the most prominent of the Mari ladies."

Amorite great King of Yamhad

thumb|upright=1.5|A seal dedicated to goddess Kubaba (goddess)|Kubaba by Matrunna, daughter of Aplahanda, 18th century BCE. Aplahanda was a king of Carchemish proposed to have reigned between 1786 and 1766 BCE, during the Middle Bronze IIA.

Siwepalarhuhpak

Siwe-Palar-Khuppak was an Elamite Grand Regent (Elamite: Sukkalmah) from around 1778 to 1745 B.C.E. As the ruler of Elam during this portion of the Middle Bronze Age, Siwe-Palar-Khuppak was quite involved in the politics of the ancient Near East, and he forged strong relationships with the powers of Mesopotamia, including Babylon.

Yarim-Lim of Alalakh

king of Alalakh

Yatar-Ami was a king of Carchemish proposed to have reigned between 1766 and 1764 BCE.

Yahdul-Lim was a king of Carchemish proposed to have reigned between 1764 and 1745 BCE. During this period, the information about Carchemish mostly comes from the archives of Mari, Syria.

Immeya was a king of Ebla, in modern Syria, reigning around 1750–1725 BCE.

'''Yantin-'Ammu''' was a local ruler of the Levantine town Byblos in the Middle Bronze Age, circa 18th century BCE. He is known from a cuneiform text in the Syrian city of Mari. The cuneiform texts from Mari are mostly datable to the reign of King Zimri-Lim, a contemporary of the Babylonian king Hammurabi.

Išḫi-Addu or Ishi-Addu was king of Qatna in the first half of the 18th century BC.

list of state leaders in the 18th century BC

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Shirukduh was an Elamite king who ruled over the Kingdom of Anshan and Susa. This ruler was one of the so-called Sukkalmahs, or Grand Regents, and ruled at a time roughly contemporary with that of Shamshi-Addu of Assyria (r. 1808–1776 BC)