Commander-in-Chief of the army

The Province of the Chief of the Armed Forces, one of the provinces of the Assyrian empire, is governed by a high dignitary of the Assyrian court of Turtan, the "chief of the army."

The province was created from the territories belonging to the Aramean kingdom of Bit-Adini, conquered in 856 BC. by the Assyrian king Salmanasara III (858-824 p.n.e.). It covered the area from Chaburu to the Euphrates Arch, as well as initially also the lands on the other side of the Euphrates, south of the Sadr River. The latter, however, were later, under Adad-nirari III (810-783 BC), entrusted to the governor of Rasappa. The capital of the province of the chief commander of the army became the city of Til Barsip, whose name was Assyrian changed to Kar-Salmanasar (Tall al-Ahmar). From the Adad-nirari III period until the reign of Ashur-nirari V (755-746 BC), the province was controlled by an influential Turtan named Shamsi-il, who in the position of Governor Til Barsip settled one of his subordinates, Ninurta-belu-usura . Most likely, in the second half of the 8th century BC, two provinces were re-established as a result of the reorganization of the province, with two new provinces: the province of Til Barsip and the province of Harran. The province of the chief military commander was probably formed in the lands north of the two provinces, occupying areas formerly occupied by the Raqamat province, which after 773 BC. Disappears from written sources. Bibliography

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