- Source: Haddu
Haddu, identified with the modern Tell Malhat ed-Deru (تل مليحة الدور), was an ancient kingdom in northern Syria in Deir ez-Zor Governorate.
History
= Early Bronze
=In the middle of the third millennium BC, the Kingdom of Haddu flourished and controlled the middle Khabur valley.
Ebla-Mari War
It was ruled by its own monarch who was a vassal of Ebla, and fought against the kingdom of Mari. The king of Haddu declared to Mari's ambassador that he "I and Ebla have a pact of peace. And the oath of the pact is before Kura (the main Eblaite god) and before Hadda".
References
= Citations
== Bibliography
=Archi, Alfonso (2010). "Hadda of Ḫalab and his Temple in the Ebla Period". IRAQ. 72: In Honour of the Seventieth Birthday of Professor David Hawkins. Cambridge University Press - On Behalf of The British Institute for the Study of Iraq (Gertrude Bell Memorial). ISSN 0021-0889. JSTOR 20779017.
Further reading
Kühne, Hartmut (1983). "Tall Malhat ed-Deru: Eine Station auf de Wegenach Kappadokie Kappadokien". In Boehmer, Rainer Michael; Hauptmann, Harald (eds.). Beiträge zur Altertumskunde Kleinasiens : Festschrift für Kurt Bittel (in German). Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern. ISBN 978-3-805-30585-3.
Quenet, Philippe; Sultan, Ahmad (2014). "New Research in the Area of Malhat ed-Deru, Northeast Syria (Autumn 2010)". In Bieliński, Piotr; Gawlikowski, Michał; Koliński, Rafał; Ławecka, Dorota; Sołtysiak, Arkadiusz; Wygnańska, Zuzanna (eds.). Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. 30 April – 4 May 2012, University of Warsaw. Vol. 2: Excavation and Progress Reports Posters. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-10174-5.