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[Up] [Dromo's Den] Shalmaneser III SHALMANESER III (860-825) [A king of Assyria] He defeated the King of Bit Adini in Mesopotamia and annexed his domain (859-856); met a coalition of Syrian princes led by Barhadad I of Damascus at Karkaf in 854, among them Ahab of Israel, and in spite of his own assurances is likely to have been defeated, as he certainly was unable to gain Damascus or to proceed against his other enemies: made unsuccessful expeditions against Damascus in 849, 846, 842, and 839, but received presents from Jehu of Judah, was driven back by the Chaldians in Armenia, but subdued some Median tribes. The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. XX (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920) 785. |