Empire2900 BCE – 2004 BCE · 896 years

Sumer (Ur III)

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

No editorial summary yet for Sumer (Ur III). The border provenance and the wars recorded for this polity are what the dataset holds.

Borders & accuracy

Reconstructed borders

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

SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
DETAILhistorical-basemaps:bc2000:Ur (r15)
MATCHEDUr
POLITY TYPEstate

HBM -2000 "Ur" outline = the Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2112-2004 BCE). Used for the whole Sumerian period: Early Dynastic Sumer (c. 2900-2350 BCE) was a mosaic of city-states in the same region, so the outline is a regional envelope, not a single state border.

Wars of this empire2

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

Ur-Nammu's Military Campaigns2112–2095 BCE
Major conflict
Lagash-Umma Conflict2500–2350 BCE
Significant · 36K dead

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 2900 BCE and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Sumer (Ur III) (2900 BCE – 2004 BCE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/sumer-ur-iii · Sources & methodology