entity · pol_middle_assyria
Middle Assyrian State
A political entity represented in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age evidence graph.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: not recorded. This is separate from specialist review.
Recorded dataset maintenance date: 2026-08-11.
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Chronology
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1400 BCE–1050 BCE
Precision: not specified
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Properties and assignments
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Late Bronze Age Great Power
A state participating at the highest level of the Late Bronze Age diplomatic and geopolitical system.
Why does this record have this property?
Middle Assyria was a major territorial power in northern Mesopotamia.
Political Survival
Continuation of a polity or dynastic-administrative tradition through a period of wider regional crisis.
Why does this record have this property?
The Assyrian state continued through the crisis period despite western contraction and later instability.
Transformed Polity
A state or political tradition that survived in altered territorial, institutional, or geopolitical form.
Why does this record have this property?
Assyria survived in a territorially and strategically altered form before later resurgence.
Evidence and sources
- supports · supports entity record
Transition: The Assyrians at the Euphrates between the 13th and the 12th Century BC — Frederick Mario Fales (2011)Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of Middle Assyrian State.
Referenced records
- Assyrian Heartland · entity