Terqa
 Shown within Syria
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| Location | Syria |
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| Region | Deir ez-Zor Governorate |
| Coordinates | 34°54′12″N 40°31′50″E / 34.903200°N 40.530445°E |
| Mari |
 Euphrates • Terqa • Tuttul Royal Palace |
| Kings |
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Yaggid-Lim • Yahdun-Lim Yasmah-Adad Zimri-Lim (Queen Shibtu) |
| Archaeology |
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Investiture of Zimri-Lim Statue of Ebih-Il Statue of Iddi-Ilum |
Coordinates: 34°54′12″N 40°31′50″E / 34.903200°N 40.530445°E
Terqa is the name of an ancient city discovered at the site of Tell Ashara on the banks of the middle Euphrates in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria, approximately 80 km from the modern border with Iraq. Its name had become Sirqu by Neo-Assyrian times.
Little is yet known of the early history of Terqa, though it was a sizable entity even in the Early Dynastic period.
In the 2nd millennium BC it was under the control of Shamshi-Adad, followed by Mari in the time of Zimri-Lim, and then by Babylon after Mari's defeat by Hammurabi of the First Babylonian Dynasty, Terqa became the leading city of the kingdom of Khana/Hana after the decline of Babylon. Later, it fell into the sphere of the Kassite dynasty of Babylon and eventually the Neo-Assyrian Empire. A noted stele of Assyrian king Tukulti-Ninurta II was found at Terqa.
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