Akkad, Also Agade
CityAlso Agade
Akkadأكد
Lost capital of Sargon, who built the first known empire around 2300 BCE.
Sargon of Akkad united the cities of Mesopotamia into the first known empire. Its language, Akkadian, is the oldest written Semitic tongue, a distant relative of Arabic. The city's site has never been found.
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