Empire2334 BCE – 2154 BCE · 180 years

Akkadian Empire

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Overview

The Akkadian Empire or the Kingdom of Akkad/Agade was an ancient kingdom established around 2334 BCE, often considered to be the first known empire, succeeding the long-lived city-states of Sumer. Centered on the city of Akkad and its surrounding region in modern-day Iraq, the empire united the Semitic Akkadian and Sumerian speakers under one rule and exercised significant influence across Mesopotamia, the Levant, modern-day Iran and Anatolia, sending military expeditions as far south as Dilmun and Magan in the Arabian Peninsula.

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Borders & accuracy

Reconstructed borders

Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.

SOURCEmanual construction / verification
DETAILkept-original
SNAPSHOT2250 BCE
POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire1

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

Akkadian Empire Expansion2334–2154 BCE
World-changing

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 2334 BCE and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Akkadian Empire (2334 BCE – 2154 BCE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/akkadian-empire · Sources & methodology