Lullubi Kingdom 𒇻𒇻𒉈𒆠 | |
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3100 BC–675 BC | |
Common languages | Unclassified (Lullubian?) Akkadian (inscriptions) |
Religion | Mesopotamian religions |
Government | Monarchy |
Historical era | Antiquity |
• Established | 3100 BC |
• Disestablished | 675 BC |
Today part of | Iraq Iran |
Lullubi, Lulubi (Akkadian: 𒇻𒇻𒉈: Lu-lu-bi, Akkadian: 𒇻𒇻𒉈𒆠: Lu-lu-biki "Country of the Lullubi"), more commonly known as Lullu,[1][2][3][4] were a group of Bronze Age tribes during the 3rd millennium BC, from a region known as Lulubum, now the Sharazor plain of the Zagros Mountains of modern-day Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraq. Lullubi was neighbour and sometimes ally with the Hurrian Simurrum kingdom.[5] Frayne (1990) identified their city Lulubuna or Luluban with the region's modern town of Halabja.
The language of the Lullubi is regarded as an unclassified language[6] because it is unattested. The term Lullubi though, appears to be of Hurrian origin rather than Semitic or the yet to arrive in the region Indo-European, and the names of its known rulers have Hurrian or more rarely Semitic influence.[7] Apart from this, it has been suggested that they are one of the many ancestral groups of the Kurds.[8][9]