A kingdom of the Lebanese mountains and coast between Byblos and the Orontes, whose rulers Abdi-Ashirta and his son Aziru built it up in Egypt's name and then carried it over to the Hittites; the Amarna Letters trace the defection step by step. The great loss of the north in the generation before the series.
War, diplomacy, and empire
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