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Of the early history of the kingdom of Assyria, little is positively known.

In the Assyrian King List, the earliest king recorded was Tudiya.

He was a contemporary of Ibrium of Ebla who appears to have lived in the late 25th or early 24th century BC, according to the king list.

The foundation of the first true urbanised Assyrian monarchy was traditionally ascribed to Ushpia a contemporary of Ishbi-Erra of Isin and Naplanum of Larsa.

circa 2030 BC.

Assyria had a period of empire from the 19th to 18th centuries BC.

From the 14th to 11th centuries BC Assyria once more became a major power with the rise of the Middle Assyrian Empire which dominated the whole of Mesopotamia and much of the Near East and Anatolia.

After an interregnum of a hundred or so years, Assyria began to expand once more with the rise of the Neo Assyrian Empire.