In 1968, they recovered a statue dedicated to the goddess Ishtar bearing the name of Ibbit-Lim, a king of Ebla.

A number of non-Greek etymologies have been suggested for the name, The form Apaliunas (< sup > d </ sup >) is attested as a god of Wilusa in a treaty between Alaksandu of Wilusa and the Hittite great king Muwatalli II ca 1280 BCE.

Their raids throughout the three parts of Gaul were traumatic: Gregory of Tours ( died ca 594 ) mentions their destructive force at the time of Valerian and Gallienus ( 253 – 260 ), when the Alemanni assembled under their " king ", whom he calls Chrocus, who " by the advice, it is said, of his wicked mother, and overran the whole of the Gauls, and destroyed from their foundations all the temples which had been built in ancient times.

Sea shell of a murex bearing the name of Rimush, king of Kish, ca.

Excavations in modern-day Iraq by Ernest de Sarzec in 1877 found evidence of the earliest known code of justice, issued by the Sumerian king Urukagina of Lagash ca 2300 BC.

In the edicts of the great Buddhist king Ashoka ( ca.

Earlier collections of laws include the Code of Ur-Nammu, king of Ur ( ca.

In the following dróttkvætt stanza, the Norwegian skald Eyvind Finnson skáldaspillir ( d. ca 990 ) compares the greed of king Harald Gråfell to the generosity of his predecessor Haakon the Good:

* Sigebert III, king of Austrasia ( died ca.

According to inscriptions describing the reforms of the Sumerian king Urukagina of Lagash ( ca.

In 1230 BC Hittite king Tudhaliya IV ( ca.

The third dynasty was established when the king Ur-Nammu came to power, ruling between ca.

* Ferdinand I of León ( 1017 – 1065 ), the Great ; ca. 1000 – 1065, became king 1037

* Ferdinand III of Castile and Leon ( 1199 – 1252 ), the Saint ; ca. 1217, became king of Castile 1217, of Leon 1230

The early Greek historian Ctesias c. 400 BC ( followed by Diodorus Siculus ) alleged that the legendary Assyrian king Ninus had defeated a Bactrian king named Oxyartes in ca.

Its tentative attribution to the 6th century BC Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II by the assyriologist Dalley or to pre-Hellenistic Egypt has been refuted on the grounds of " the total lack of any literary and archaeological evidence for the existence of the water-screw before ca.

The raid to Frisia enabled N. F. S. Grundtvig to approximate the date of Hygelac's death to ca 516, because a raid to France under a King Chlochilaicus, king of the Danes is mentioned by Gregory of Tours.

By the assistance of Ptolemy IX Lathyros, king of Egypt, he recovered part of his father's Syrian dominions ca 95 BC, and held his court at Damascus, from where he tried to enlarge his dominions.

At its peak under king Rim-Sin I ( ca.

This has led some scholars to conclude that the flood hero was king of Shuruppak at the end of the Jemdet Nasr period ( ca.

Djoser was the first or second king of the 3rd Dynasty ( ca.

Murex bearing the name of " Rimush, king of Kish ", ca.

* Alyattes I, king of Lydia ( ca.

A depiction originally from ca 1370 of a Nordic king holding the flags of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

Härjedalen came under the Norwegian king ca.

Millennialism is also a doctrine of medieval Zoroastrianism concerning successive thousand-year periods, each of which will end in a cataclysm of heresy and destruction, until the final destruction of evil and of the spirit of evil by a triumphant king of peace at the end of the final millennial age ( supposed by some to be the year 2000 ).

" Editing Aubrey ", in Joe Bray ; Miriam Handley ; A. C. Henry ( eds ), Ma ( r ) king the Text ( 2000 ).

A supply ship in 1733 brought three missionaries and news that the king had granted 2000 rixdollars a year to establish a new company for the colony under Jacob Severin.

The earliest Life of Petroc states that he was the son of an unnamed Welsh king: the twelfth century version known as the Gotha Life, written at Bodmin, identifies that king as Glywys of Glywysing ( Orme 2000, p. 215 ) and Petroc as a brother of Gwynllyw and uncle of Cadoc.

When, with the introduction of feudalism, king Bela confirmed the kindred in their possession of Breber ( 1251 ) this name would again be used to identify them since by then the custom was to be called after one's premier fief ( Rady, 2000 ).

i. m. 24 ), and a loan to the king of 2000 marks (£ 1333, 6s.

* 1344-Charles takes Quimper with the help of a French army, courtesy of king Philip VI of France, and slaughters 2000 civilians

But the king forced Geoffrey to allow the royal appointments, and pay a fine of £ 2000 before his lands were restored, although Geoffrey was allowed some time to make the full payment.

In the Battle of the Hydaspes River, the Indian king Porus, who ruled in Punjab, with his smaller army of 200 war elephants, 2000 cavalry and 20, 000 infantry, presented great difficulty for Alexander the Great's larger army of 4000 cavalry and 50, 000 infantry, though Porus was eventually defeated.

In 2000, Yam starred as the king of vampires in ATV's television series My Date with a Vampire 2.

In 2000 India's Supreme Court dismissed Oak's petition to declare that a Hindu king had built the Taj Mahal and reprimanded him for bringing the action, saying he had a " bee in his bonnet " about the Taj.

In his judgement, the Eastern Daju languages separated from the others perhaps as much as 2000 years ago, while the Western Daju languages were spread more recently, perhaps by the Daju state which dominated Darfur from about 1200 AD until scattered after the death of Kasi Furogé, the Daju king, and replaced by the Tunjur.

Shervan's former ally the Karabakh ruler Yar Ahmed Karamanlu sided with Kara Yusuf, while Ibrahim joined his forces with the ruler of Shaki Sidi Ahmed Orlat and the Georgian king Constantine I, who marched in the head of 2000 Georgian cavalry to support the Shirvanese.

The Gentiana lutea is depicted on the reverse of the Albanian 2000 lekë banknote, issued in 2008, that also depicts king Gentius on its obverse.

It is reported by Benedict of Peterborough that Gille Brigte offered the King of England a one-off payment of 2000 marks, and a yearly tribute of 500 cows and 500 swine, if the King would " remove them Galwegians from the servitude of the king of Scotland " ( Anderson, p. 258 ).

These have constituted a temple for Heracles ( 2000 years ago ), and the name of this Greek god is carved on one of the walls of the third room, accompanied by a horse rider ( hunting a deer ) which is believed to illustrate Goudarz the Ashkanid king.

He returned to Oxford in December with a scheme for raising 10, 000 Irish for service in England and 2000 to join Montrose in Scotland, which through the influence of the duchess of Buckingham secured the consent of the king.

( Kelly 2000 ) An advisor of King Ethelred, he is praised in the Chronicle of Abingdon as a good leader who won restitution of Abingdon lands alienated by the king.