Sargon has often been cited as the first ruler of a combined empire of Akkad and Sumer, although more recently discovered data suggests there had been Sumerian expansions under previous kings, including Lugal-Anne-Mundu of Adab, Eannatum of Lagash, and Lugal-Zage-Si.

She begs the moon god Nanna to intercede for her because the city of Uruk, under the ruler Lugalanne, has rebelled against Sargon.

The Kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Assyrian ruler Sargon II in the late 8th century BCE with many people from the capital Samaria being taken captive to Media and the Khabur River valley.

For the unnamed " king of Babylon " a wide range of identifications have been proposed. They include a Babylonian ruler of the prophet Isaiah's own time the later Nebuchadnezzar II, under whom the Babylonian captivity of the Jews began, or Nabonidus, and the Assyrian kings Tiglath-Pileser, Sargon II and Sennacherib, Herbert Wolf held that the " king of Babylon " was not a specific ruler but a generic representation of the whole line of rulers.

Sumerians ( who spoke a language isolate ) remained largely dominant in this synthesised Sumero-Akkadian culture however, until the rise of the Akkadian Empire under Sargon the Great in 2334 BCE which united all of Mesopotamia under one ruler.

Sargon II became co-regent with Shalmaneser V in 722 BC, and became the sole ruler of the kingdom of Babylonia in 722 BC after the death of Shalmaneser V. It is not clear whether he was the son of Tiglath-Pileser III or a usurper unrelated to the royal family.

With the Akkadian conquest Lagash lost its independence, its ruler or ensi becoming a vassal of Sargon of Akkad and his successors ; but Lagash continued to be a city of much importance and above all, a centre of artistic development.

In 679 BC the Cimmerians, who had already killed his grandfather Sargon II, reappeared in Cilicia and Tabal under their new ruler Teushpa.

His son was held hostage by the Urartians, and he supported the Urartian king against the Mannean ruler Ullusunu, but Sargon captured Daiukku and exiled him and his family to Hamath in Syria.

* Yahu-Bihdi, ruler of Hamath, was flayed alive by the Assyrians under Sargon II.

In 716 BC, king Sargon II of Assyria moved against Mannea, where the ruler Aza, son of Iranzu, had been deposed by Ullusunu with the help of the Urartians.

Sargon of Akkad ( Sharru-kin = " legitimate king ", possibly a title he took on gaining power ; 24th century BC ) defeated and captured Lugal-Zage-Si in the Battle of Uruk and conquered his empire.

However, Sargon took this process further, conquering many of the surrounding regions to create an empire that reached westward as far as the Mediterranean Sea and perhaps Cyprus ( Kaptara ); northward as far as the mountains ( a later Hittite text asserts he fought the Hattite king Nurdaggal of Burushanda, well into Anatolia ); eastward over Elam ; and as far south as Magan ( Oman ) — a region over which he reigned for purportedly 56 years, though only four " year-names " survive.

In this millennium, larger empires succeeded the last, and conquerors grew in stature until the great Sargon of Akkad pushed his empire to the whole of Mesopotamia and beyond.

* Sargon the Great, founder of the empire of Akkad and Sumer ( 2371 – 2316 BC middle chronology )

* Sargon of Akkad, founder of the Akkadian Empire and the earliest empire builder in recorded history

2300 BC was incorporated into the Mesopotamian based Akkadian empire of Sargon the Great and Naram-Sin of Akkad ( Biblical Accad ).

In circa 2300 BCE the Akkadian king Sargon the Great conquered all of Mesopotamia, uniting the Akkadian and Sumerians in the world's first empire, though this Akkadian empire collapsed after two centuries.

The Neo-Assyrian Empire ( 911-605BCE ) was probably the most dominant power on earth between the 10th Century BCE and the late 7th Century BCE, with an empire stretching from Cyprus in the west to central Iran in the east, and from the Caucasus mountains in the north to Nubia, Egypt and Arabia in the south, facilitating the spread of Mesopotamian culture and religion far and wide under emperors such as Ashurbanipal, Tukulti-Ninurta, Tiglath-Pileser, Shalmanesser IV, Sargon II, Sennacherib and Esarhaddon.

His empire was overthrown by Sargon of Akkad.

The group was documented at least as early as the empire of Sargon of Akkad ( ca.

It was so valued in early times that the first great Mesopotamian empire — the Empire of Sargon of Akkad -- listed the taking of diorite as a purpose of military expeditions.

Eannatum of Lagash was said to have smitten Subartu or Shubur, and it was listed as a province of the empire of Lugal-Anne-Mundu ; in a later era Sargon of Akkad campaigned against Subar, and his grandson Naram-Sin listed Subar along with Armani ( Armenians ),-which has been identified with Aleppo -, among the lands under his control.

Shabaka succeeded in preserving Egypt's independence from outside foreign powers especially the Assyrian empire under Sargon II.

* Sargon, leader of the fat men in Daniel Pinkwater's 1982 novel Slaves of Spiegel

This realm is one of the Nine Worlds and it is home to the fire jötunn or the " sons of Muspell ", and Surtr, their ruler.

Snorri writes that Hel was cast down into Hel by Odin who " made her ruler over Nine Worlds.

The last ruler of Shishunaga Dynsty, Kalasoka was assassinated by Mahapadma Nanda in 424 BC, the first of the so-called Nine Nandas ( Mahapadma and his eight sons ).

He then destroys the Nine Li and defeated Chi You before falling out with the Yan emperor and defeating him at Banquan and replacing him as the primary ruler.

Nine of the fourteen Malaysian states have their own constitutional monarchy ; eight are ruled by sultans ( the title for the rulers of Kelantan, Kedah, Terengganu, Negeri Sembilan, Pahang, Selangor, Perak and Johore ) and one by a raja ( the title for the ruler of Perlis ).

Nine days after crossing the Don he met Sartaq Khan, ruler of the Kipchak Khanate.

As a result of the brilliance and achievements he displayed in the field of medicine he was chosen as one of the Nine Gems in early Indian ruler Vikramaditya ’ s court.

Tiamat's role as ruler of Avernus, the first layer of the Nine Hells, is detailed in Ed Greenwood's article, " The Nine Hells Part I ," in Dragon # 75 ( 1983 ).

In the mainstream DC Comics universe Blaze, daughter of the wizard Shazam is the current ruler of the Nine Infernal Provinces of Hell.

In Frank Herbert's Dune series, the Padishah Emperor — also commonly referred to as " Emperor of the Known Universe " or " Emperor of a Million Worlds "— is the supreme ruler of humanity, whose power is checked by the Spacing Guild, the Bene Gesserit and the Landsraad.

After the death of Ahmad Shah in about 1772, his son Timur Shah became the next ruler of the Durrani dynasty who decided to make Kabul the new capital of the empire, and used Peshawar as the winter capital.

Timur Shah proved an ineffectual ruler, during whose reign the Durrani empire began to crumble.

Ahasuerus, ruler of a massive Persian empire, holds a lavish party, initially for his court and dignitaries and afterwards for all inhabitants of the capital city Shushan.

Worried all women will learn from this, Ahasuerus removes her as queen and has a royal decree sent across the empire that men should be the ruler of their households and should speak their own native tongue.

The player takes on the role of the ruler of a civilization, starting with only one settler unit, and attempts to build an empire in competition with two to six other civilizations.

This left Constantius as sole ruler of the empire.

As a result, Constans took control of his deceased brother ’ s realms and became sole ruler of the Western two-thirds of the empire.

An emperor ( through Old French empereor from Latin imperator ) is a ( male ) monarch, usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm.

Historians have liberally used emperor and, especially so, empire anachronistically and out of its Roman and European context to describe any large state and its ruler in the past and present ; sometimes even to refer to non-monarchically ruled states and their spheres of influence: such examples include the " Athenian Empire " of the late 5th century BC, the " Angevin Empire " of the Plantagenets, or the Soviet and American " empires " of the Cold War era.

Haiti was declared an empire by its ruler, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who made himself Jacques I, in 20 May 1805.

Sometimes an empire is a semantic construction, such as when a ruler assumes the title of " Emperor ".

Jaypala was the most powerful ruler of this empire rule over Pakistan and Jammu & Kasmir.

So, for example, the 16th-century humanist scholar Polydore Vergil famously rejected the claim that Arthur was the ruler of a post-Roman empire, found throughout the post-Galfridian medieval " chronicle tradition ", to the horror of Welsh and English antiquarians.

It was adopted by the Uyghur ruler Khagan Boku Tekin ( AD 759 – 780 ) in 763, and remained the state religion for about a century before the collapse of the Uyghur empire in 840.

The Persian Emperor Cambyses II upon conquering Ancient Egypt sent ambassadors to Macrobia bringing luxury gifts for the Macrobian king to entice his submission, but instead the Macrobian ruler replied with a challenge for the Persian ruler in the form of an unstrung bow, that if the Persians could manage to string, they would have the right to invade his country, but until then they should thank the gods that the Macrobians never decided to invade their empire.

This made it difficult for a single ruler to reassemble Charlemagne's empire.

The new King was declared ruler of the entire Spanish empire, contrary to the provisions of the Second Partition Treaty.

* 1025: ruler Rajendra Chola I moves the capital city of the empire from Thanjavur to Gangaikonda Cholapuram

These reforms were finally realized late in the century under the reign of Diocletian, one of them being to divide the empire into an eastern and western half, and have a separate ruler for each.

* Under the agreement, Philip III becomes king, but Perdiccas, as the regent, effectively becomes the ruler of Alexander's empire.

** Viranarasimha Raya, ruler of the Vijayanagar empire

* Acamapichtli is elected Tlatoani of the Aztec empire after the death of Tenoch, the first Aztec ruler.

The teenaged ruler set out to turn the city into an intellectual center for the empire.