Simon ben Kosiba, surnamed Simon bar Kochba ("son of the star") was a Jewish Messiah. Between 132 and 135, he was the leader of the last resistance against the Romans. After the end of the disastrous rebellion, the rabbis called…
Justinian: emperor of the East-Roman (Byzantine) empire (r.527-565).
Justinian
Names:
482: Flavius Petrus Sabbatius
April 527: made co-ruler by Justin
1 August 527: Flavius Justinianus
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Kalhu or, Biblical, Kalah (Hebrew כלח): capital of ancient Assyria, modern Nimrud.History
The ziggurat of Nimrud
This city, called Kalhu by the Assyrians…
Kaneš or Neša: central town in the Middle Bronze trade network of Anatolia, with several palaces and an Assyrian trading post (modern Kültepe, twenty kilometers northeast of modern Kayseri).Early History
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Kara Tepe: ancient Buddhist monastery near modern Termez (southern Uzbekistan).Early Bactria
Bactrian imitation of an Athenian drachm
Since the early Achaemenid age, Bactria…
Kashta (mid-eighth-century BCE): name of a Nubian king.Relatives
Wife: Pebatjma, probably his sister
Sons: Piye (probably), Shabaqo
Daughters: Amenirdis I (Great Wife of Amun in Thebes), Peksatar (wife of Piye), Khensa (wife of Piye), Nefrukekashta (wife of Piye)
Life
Succeeds Alara, who may have been…
Kassites (Akkadian Kaššu): tribal federation living in the Zagros mountains, in modern Luristan. In the seventeenth century BCE, they threatened Babylonia, which they captured in the fifteenth century. More than a millennium later, they are mentioned - now called Cossaeans…