Zahiran

Zahiran also known as Sahiri or Sa-hi-ri,^[1] also known as Zahiran^[2] was an Iron Age city of the ancient near east.^[3] It was a city in what is today Syria.

During the Mari–Ebla war (2300 BC) Zahiran was the site of a battle between Igrish-Halam King of Ebla,^[4][5][6][7] and Iblul-il, King of Mari.^[8][9]About a decade later it would be absorbed into the empire of Sargon of Akkad.

The town was sacked in the Battle of Nineveh (612 BC). The chronicle of Aššur-uballit II, known as Chronicle 3,^[10] states of the Battle of Nineveh between Babylonian and Assyrian armies that "in the month Âbu the king of Akkad and his army went upstream to Mane, Sahiri and Bali-hu. He plundered them, sacked them extensively and abducted their gods."^[11][12]