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Shalmaneser

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Also known as Salmaneser

Shalmaneser (Salmānu-ašarēd) was the name of five kings of Assyria:

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Shalmaneser (Salmānu-ašarēd) was the name of five kings of Assyria: Shalmaneser I ( 1274–1245 BC) Shalmaneser II (1030–1019 BC) Shalmaneser III (859–824 BC) Shalmaneser IV (783–773 BC) Shalmaneser V (727–722 BC), who appears in the Bible as the conqueror of the Kingdom of Israel

It may also refer to: Shalmaneser, an artificial intelligence in John Brunner's 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar Salmanazar, a wine bottle size measuring 9 litres George Psalmanazar (c. 1679–1763), a Frenchman who posed as a Formosan immigrant

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shalmaneser” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.