Barga (kingdom)
Barga was an ancient city and later kingdom in the Syrian Coastal Mountain Range in the Bronze age and Iron age.
Middle Bronze
In the Middle Bronze, Parga/Barga was a contested city between Yamhad and Qatna near Hamath.
Late Bronze
Barga was a
Habiru). The Amarna letters correspondence is composed of 382 clay 'tablet-letters', the majority written to the pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, and Barga is only referenced in the subcorpus letters authored by Akizzi, the Prince of Qatna
.
The region was generally southwest of
".See also
- Amarna letters
- Habiru
- Niya (kingdom), relative kingdoms
- Akizzi, Prince of Qatna
- Amarna letters–localities and their rulers
References
- ISBN 0-8018-6715-0)