Guidara

Gidara, Raqamat, Raqmat - in the 1st half. BC a city in northern Mesopotamia, in the upper course of Chaburu, lying west of Nasibin and north of Guzana. It first appears in the yearbook of the Assyrian King Adadir nirari (911-891 BC), which mentions that under the rule of one of his predecessors, the city of Gidara, at that time in Assyrian hands, was occupied by the Aramaeans of the Temanites, who They changed their name to Raqamat. Adad-nirari II himself during his voyage in 898 BC. He came to this city, took it and won it. The Raqamatu was plundered, and his Temanite ruler, Muquru, was deported along with his family to Assyria. The town acquired for some time was the capital of one of the Assyrian provinces. There are several governors of the Raqamat that have been serving the limm (eponima) in the period between Salmanasar III (858-824 BC) and Salmanasara IV (782-773 BC). Later, the Raqamat was most likely incorporated into the province of the chief military commander. According to one of the Babylonian chronicles of the first years of Nabopolassar's reign, the ruler undertook an unsuccessful attempt to capture the Raqamat (Raqmat) in the first year of his reign: "In the month of the ninth day, Nabopolassar came to Raqm with his army. and hit the Raqmat, but did not capture the city. Assyrian troops arrived (with relief) and retreated before them. "

The Assyrian governors of the Raqamat (Raqmat), known from the Assyrian letter and the epitaph: Bibliography

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