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    Ensi (cuneiform: 𒑐𒋼𒋛 pa.te.si Sumerian: ensik, "lord of the plowland"; Emesal dialect: umunsik; Akkadian: iššakkum) was a Sumerian title designating...
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    force.[page needed] Sumerian cities during the Uruk period were probably theocratic and were most likely headed by a priest-king (ensi), assisted by a council...
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    advent of the Lugal ("King"), Sumerian city-states were under a virtually theocratic government controlled by various En or Ensí, who served as the high priests...
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    a Sumerian city-state. The others were "EN" and "ensi". The sign for "lugal" became the understood logograph for "king" in general. In the Sumerian language...
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    oldest known settlement in southern Mesopotamia is Tell el-'Oueili. The Sumerians claimed that their civilization had been brought, fully formed, to the...
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    Lugal (category Articles containing Sumerian-language text)
    "great", or "big." It was one of several Sumerian titles that a ruler of a city-state could bear (alongside en and ensi, the exact difference being a subject...
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    Dynasty of Ur, also called the Neo-Sumerian Empire, refers to a 22nd to 21st century BC (middle chronology) Sumerian ruling dynasty based in the city of...
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    the first ruler of the Akkadian Empire, known for his conquests of the Sumerian city-states in the 24th to 23rd centuries BC. He is sometimes identified...
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    ensi of Marhashi; Enlil-ezzu, ensi of [...]; SHESH-kel (?), ensi of Kel; Su-Anum, ensi of Kagalla (?); [...]-Ellum, ensi of Amdama; Ibi-mama, ensi of...
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  • Gilgamesh is written in Mesopotamia in Akkadian. c. 2144 BC: Gudea, ruler (ensi) of Lagash, starts to reign. 2138 BC: A solar eclipse on 9 May and a lunar...
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