Assyria City List

[Aethelend]

I could do this myself, but I wanted to put it out there to see what you guys come up with, to possibly save myself a little time. I want to make an ancient scenario that has Babylon, Assyria, Persia, and Sumeria as playable civilizations.

I always thought having Babylon without Assyria was like having Rome without Carthage, or Greece without Persia.

The trouble is, I don't know how to write their city lists so that the two of them don't share any of the same cities, while keeping both lists at the standard length. Has anyone else already written such lists?

 

[Ozymandias]

I could do this myself, but I wanted to put it out there to see what you guys come up with, to possibly save myself a little time. I want to make an ancient scenario that has Babylon, Assyria, Persia, and Sumeria as playable civilizations.

I always thought having Babylon without Assyria was like having Rome without Carthage, or Greece without Persia.

The trouble is, I don't know how to write their city lists so that the two of them don't share any of the same cities, while keeping both lists at the standard length. Has anyone else already written such lists?

Recall the geographic overlap. Nonetheless:

Nimrud (capital)
- then, in a crescent from W to E:
Gaza
Tyre
Sidon
Byblos
Damascus
Carchemish
Harran
Khorsabad
Nineveh
Ashur
Babylon
Uruk
Ur

-z

 

[Aethelend]

Hmm, thank you for the help, but unfortunately I can't use that. There are Sumerian and Babylonian cities in that list. The geographic overlap does make this problematic. Were there any places that were ruled by Assyria yet never by Babylon? Or can we find more minor, lesser-known towns?

I feel that I'm going to need to do some digging for this one.

 

[Yoda Power]

The overlap is not that big of a problem, since a city name will only appear once. Just make sure there is a lot of cities on the list, and you should be fine.

 

[Aethelend]

Ohh, I didn't realize that. Okay, nevermind.

 

[King Coltrane]

Since your scenario has a fairly large time frame (Sumeria AND Persia) you have a fair amount to work with.

Dur-Sharrukin is a good one (Sennacherib's Palace Without Rival), which can also be a capital, though I would argue that Nineveh should be the capital over Nimrud.

But here you go, by region:

Assyria proper: Dur-Sharrukin, Assur, Nineveh, Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta, Shubat-Enlil, Nimrud, Kahlu, Arbil, Arrapha

West/Central Syria: Harran, Carchemish (yeah it overlaps with the Hittites), Aleppo, Qarqar, Tadmor/Palmyra, Mari (though it had declined in importance by the Neo-Assyrian period)

Levant: Magidu (Megiddo), Samaria, Hazor, Ugarit (again, shared with Hittites), Arvad, Riblah, Damascus, Byblos, Sidon, Tyre (overlap for the previous 3), Jerusalem, Lachish, Gaza

Some potential others: Kultepe Kanesh (yes its in Anatolia, but there was an assyrian trading colony in the 19th C. BCE), Tushpa (in Urartu)

Otherwise, I'd say give the southern mesopotamian cities to Babylon and the northern ones to Assyria. After all, the Assyrian Empire was MUCH larger than Babylon ever was. Anyway, what I've given you should be enough for a city list.

 

[Takhisis]

Pitru and Mutkinu.

Couldn't you include some of the Egyptian cities captured by the Assyrians during the reign of Esarhaddon?