By the time of Mesalim, whichever dynasty controlled the city of Kish was recognised as šar kiššati (= king of Kish ), and was considered preeminent in Sumer, possibly because this was where the two rivers approached, and whoever controlled Kish ultimately controlled the irrigation systems of the other cities downstream.

* Control of the " holy " city of Nippur and its temple priesthood generally meant hegemony over most of Sumer, as listed on the Sumerian King List ; at one point, the Nippur priesthood conferred the title of queen of Sumer on Kugbau, a popular taverness from nearby Kish ( who was later deified as Kubaba ).

Sennacherib split his army and had one part attack the stationed enemy at Kish while he and the rest of the army proceeded to capture the city Cutha.

The Empire of Kush to the south of Egypt is known from at least 1970 BC, but this name has also been associated by some with the Kassites who inhabited the Zagros area of Mesopotamia, the Sumerian city of Kish.

In the possibly mythical pre-dynastic period, the Sumerian king list portrays the passage of power from Eridu to Shuruppak in the south, until a flood occurred, from where it relocated to the northern city of Kish at the start of the Early Dynastic period.

# Gilgamesh and Aga ( Gilgamesh vs. Aga of Kish, has no corresponding episode in the epic, but the themes of whether to show mercy to captives, and counsel from the city elders, also occur in the standard version of the Humbaba story ).

* Kish ( Sumer ), an ancient city in Sumer

Elected to the city council were Mike Henry, Rick Lipan, Joe Greene, Charlotte Kish, Amanda Langmaid, and Richard Pouliot.

Kish ( Sumerian: Kiš ; transliteration: Kiŝ < sup > ki </ sup >; cuneiform: ; Akkadian: kiššatu ) is modern Tell al-Uhaymir ( Babil Governorate, Iraq ), and was an ancient city of Sumer.

* Tell Uhaimir-believed to be the location of the city of Kish.

* McGuire Gibson, The city and Area of Kish, Coconut Grove, 1972

2900 BC, interrupts the continuity of settlement, extending as far north as the city of Kish.

Anti-Armenian cultural vandalism in Azerbaijan perpetrated with the use of revisionist theories on Caucasian Albania was also noted in northern Azerbaijan, where Norwegian archeologists were involved in the restoration of an Armenian-Georgian church in the village of Kish near the city of Shaki.

Kish: An underground city by the name of Hidden Pearl was constructed of roads interlinked 20 meters under the ground.

It is the capital of Babylon Province and is located adjacent to the ancient city of Babylon, and close to the ancient cities of Borsippa and Kish.

The city in the Mesopotamian area which best fits the description is called Kish ( derivative of Kush or Cush ) located in a plain area ( Sumerian ' edin ') and resembles an area that is repeatedly flooded by the rivers Euphrates and Tigris.

* Kish Island, an Iranian island and a city in the Persian Gulf

* Kish, Iran, a city on Kish Island

* Kish ( Sumer ), an ancient city in Sumer, now in Iraq

The main rivers of the city are the Kish and Gurjhana.

As a result of a flood in the river Kish, the city of Shaki was partially ruined and the population was resettled in the present day city.

The city of Ashur again flourished, and appears to have gained a great deal of autonomy during this period.

The city flourished, primarily due to wine trade, and the cathedral of St. André was built.

Gone are the days when the Hoffman House flourished on Madison Square, with its famous nudes by Bouguereau ; when barrooms were palaces, on nearly every corner throughout the city ; when Steve Brodie, jumping from Brooklyn Bridge, splashed the entire country with publicity ; when Bowery concert halls dispensed schooners of beer for a nickel, with a stage show thrown in ; when Theis's Music Hall still resounded on 14th Street with its great mechanical organ, the wonder of its day, a place of beauty, with fine paintings and free company and the frankest of female life.

The famous architect Mimar Sinan designed many mosques and other grand buildings in the city, while Ottoman arts of ceramics and calligraphy also flourished.

The city recovered and flourished from the 11th century on.

The city flourished until 1071 with the invasion of the Seljuk Turks, followed by the upheavals of the Crusades.

The Eblaite civilization was likely conquered by Sargon of Akkad around 2260 BCE ; the city was restored as the nation of the Amorites a few centuries later and flourished through the early second millennium BCE until conquered by the Hittites.

The city then flourished as a center of commerce between east and west, and became the undisputed financial hub of the Asia Pacific in the 1930s.

The city, nevertheless, maintained important trade relationships, and housed a relatively flourishing cultural and artistic life: several Arab poets, including Ibn Hamdis, the most important Sicilian poet of the 12th century, flourished in the city.

During the Counter-Reformation, the intellectual life of the city – shaped by Protestantism and Humanism — flourished, even as the Protestant bourgeoisie lost its role to the Catholic orders as the patron of the arts.

Economic development was largely centred in Aden, and while the city flourished partly due to the discovery of crude oil on the Arabian Peninsula in the 1930s, the states of the Aden Protectorate stagnated.

The city flourished due to large mineral ( especially coal ) deposits in the nearby mountains.

Bion ( Greek: Βίων, gen .: Βίωνος ), Greek bucolic poet, was a native of the city of Smyrna and flourished about 100 BC.

After being named the state capital and the introduction of new industry, the city flourished.

The young Holbein learned his craft in his father's workshop in Augsburg, a city with a thriving book trade, where woodcut and engraving flourished.

Despite this, the city flourished in the following decades both economically and socially, developing its industry, being an important agricultural market and having a very important cultural and technological centre as the University.

Until 1520, the city flourished, becoming the second largest population centre in the territory of the present Netherlands, after Utrecht.

Kaneš, inhabited continuously from the Chalcolithic period to Roman times, flourished as an important Hattic / Hittite / Hurrian city, which contained a large merchant quarter ( kârum ) of the Old Assyrian kingdom, from ca.

The city was a Pony Express stop and was home to many large produce companies and local farms which flourished due to the Vaca Valley's rich soil, including The Nut Tree.

Palenque ( Bàak ' in Modern Maya ) was a Maya city state in southern Mexico that flourished in the 7th century.

It was under Hārūn ar-Rashīd that Baghdad flourished into the most splendid city of its period.

Under King Evagoras ( 411-374 BCE ) Greek culture and art flourished in the city and it would be interesting one day when the spade of the archaeologist uncovers public buildings of this period.

The city flourished until AD 165, when the Romans destroyed it.

The rise of Koine is conventionally marked by the accession in 285 BC of ( Greek-speaking ) Ptolemy II, who ruled from Alexandria, Egypt and launched the " Alexandrian period ", when the city of Alexandria and its expatriate Greek-medium scholars flourished.