Haddu

{{About|the ancient city of Haddu, modern Malhat ed-Deru|the Syrian storm deity|Hadad}}

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Haddu, identified with the modern Tell Malhat ed-Deru (تل مليحة الدور), was an ancient kingdom in northern Syria in Deir ez-Zor Governorate.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GE1sBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA85|title= Ritual, Performance, and Politics in the Ancient Near East|author= Lauren Ristvet| page=85|year= 2014|publisher= Cambridge University Press|isbn= 9781107065215}}

History

=Early Bronze=

In the middle of the third millennium BC, the Kingdom of Haddu flourished and controlled the middle Khabur valley.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VqERBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA53|title= Ritual, Performance, and Politics in the Ancient Near East|author= Lauren Ristvet| page=53|year= 2014|publisher= Cambridge University Press|isbn= 9781316195031}}

==Ebla-Mari War==

It was ruled by its own monarch who was a vassal of Ebla,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=46SmAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT133|title= The Development of Pre-State Communities in the Ancient Near East: Studies in Honour of Edgar Peltenburg|author=Diane Bolger, Louise C. Maguire| page=133|year= 2010|publisher= Oxbow Books|isbn= 9781842178379}} and fought against the kingdom of Mari.{{cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/5950258|title= Amalia Catagnoti : IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE WAR. THE TRUCE BETWEEN EBLAAND MARI (ARET XVI 30) AND THE RANSOM OF PRISONERS, Revue d'assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale Vol. 106, pp 50|publisher= Presses Universitaires de France|date=2012|access-date=26 February 2015}} The king of Haddu declared to Mari's ambassador that he "I and Ebla have a pact of peace. And the oath of the pact is before Kura (the main Eblaite god) and before Hadda".{{sfn|Archi|2010|p=5}}

References

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{{cite journal|last1=Archi|first1=Alfonso|year=2010|title=Hadda of Ḫalab and his Temple in the Ebla Period|journal=IRAQ|publisher= Cambridge University Press - On Behalf of The British Institute for the Study of Iraq (Gertrude Bell Memorial)|volume=72: In Honour of the Seventieth Birthday of Professor David Hawkins|jstor=20779017|issn= 0021-0889}}