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Puzur-Ashur I

2050 BC - 1970 BC

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Puzur-Ashur I (Akkadian: 𒁍𒀫𒀸𒋩, romanized: Pu-AMAR-Aš-ŠUR) was an Assyrian king in the 21st and 20th centuries BC. He is generally regarded as the founder of Assyria as an independent city-state, c. 2025 BC.He is in the Assyrian King List and is referenced in the inscriptions of later kings (his son and successor Shalim-ahum and the later Ashur-rim-nisheshu and Shalmaneser III.): 6, 8, 12, 15  These later kings mentioned him among the kings who had renewed the city walls of Assur begun by Kikkia.Puzur-Ashur I may have started a native Assyrian dynasty that endured for eight generations until Erishum II was overthrown by the Amorite Shamshi-Adad I. Hildegard Lewy, writing in the Cambridge Ancient History, rejects this interpretation and sees Puzur-Aššur I as part of a longer dynasty started by one of his predecessors, Sulili. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Puzur-Ashur I has received more than 97,243 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Puzur-Ashur I is the 11,166th most popular politician (down from 10,077th in 2019), the 257th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 233rd in 2019) and the 166th most popular Iraqi Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Puzur-Ashur I ranks 11,166 out of 15,577Before him are Carl Schurz, Rainer Barzel, Anthony Panizzi, Vicente López y Planes, Carlo II Tocco, and Jelle Zijlstra. After him are Philip II, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe, Charles Doolittle Walcott, Santiago Casares Quiroga, Mary McAleese, Xenophon Zolotas, and Robert Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 2050 BC, Puzur-Ashur I ranks 4Before him are Mentuhotep III, Intef III, and Ibbi-Sin.  Among people deceased in 1970 BC, Puzur-Ashur I ranks 1

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Puzur-Ashur I ranks 257 out of 338Before him are Awad Hamed al-Bandar (1945), Ashur-nadin-apli (-1300), Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī (null), Abu Firas al-Hamdani (932), Enlil-kudurri-usur (-1300), and Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī (923). After him are Ahmad ibn Yusuf (835), Mahmud Nedim Pasha (1818), Kadim Al Sahir (1957), Nechirvan Barzani (1966), Abdullah Goran (1904), and Ahmed Chalabi (1944).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iraq

Among politicians born in Iraq, Puzur-Ashur I ranks 166Before him are Kadashman-Enlil I (-1400), Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun (864), Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz (1913), Awad Hamed al-Bandar (1945), Ashur-nadin-apli (-1300), and Enlil-kudurri-usur (-1300). After him are Mahmud Nedim Pasha (1818), Nechirvan Barzani (1966), Ahmed Chalabi (1944), Kurigalzu II (-1400), Ishme-Dagan (-2000), and Ashur-nirari III (-1300).