Akkad
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one of the ancient kingdoms of Mesopotamia, the northern division of Babylonia.
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Also Agade Achad a city in and the capital of an ancient kingdom in Mesopotamia: according to the Bible, one of the three cities of Nimrod's kingdom.
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Ancient name: Agade. a city on the Euphrates in N Babylonia, the centre of a major empire and civilization (2360–2180 bc )
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an ancient region lying north of Babylon, from which the Akkadian language and culture is named
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The book poured out of El Akkad, though normally a slow writer: “I was writing quite furiously for months on end,” he told Dan Sheehan of Lithub.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025
The period of independent city-states came to an end with the rise of the world’s first empire, the Akkadian Empire of Sargon of Akkad.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
Lots of people have tried to imagine a 21st century U.S. civil war, but none have succeeded as much as Omar El Akkad with American War.
From Slate • Feb. 18, 2023
El Akkad won the Scotiabank Giller Prize for his book “What Strange Paradise” on Monday night.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 8, 2021
At present our understanding is meager—probably because disarmament budgets have, since the time of Sargon of Akkad, been somewhere between ineffective and nonexistent.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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