Barga (kingdom)

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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

EA for 'el Amarna'), when referencing the "king of Barga" and "Akizzi, king of Qatna
".

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