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  • proper noun Name of an Akkadian emperor famous for his conquest of the Sumerian city-states in the 24th and 23rd centuries BC.
  • proper noun Name of two Assyrian kings.

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Examples

  • I even heard that on occasion Sargon is going to have a hooker give-away.

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • The name Sargon has been supposed to be one which he adopted as his royal title at the time of his establishment upon the throne, intending by the adoption to make it generally known that he had acquired the crown, not by birth or just claim, but by his own will and the consent of the people.

    The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. George Rawlinson 1857

  • Sargon is gonna shit, but there is a site (right about here) that can help you find lost things through numerology.

    Archive 2007-03-01 2007

  • The Assyrian myth of Sargon, which is, indeed, very close to the Hebrew, may be the oldest form of all; but the very fact that the Hebrews located their story in Egypt shows that they knew it to have a home there in some fashion.

    God and my Neighbour Robert Blatchford 1897

  • The Assyrian myth of Sargon, which is, indeed, very close to the Hebrew, may be the oldest form of all; but the very fact that the Hebrews located their story in Egypt shows that they knew it to have a home there in some fashion.

    God and my Neighbour Robert Blatchford 1897

  • The Assyrian myth of Sargon, which is, indeed, very close to the Hebrew, may be the oldest form of all; but the very fact that the Hebrews located their story in Egypt shows that they knew it to have a home there in some fashion.

    God and my Neighbour Robert Blatchford 1897

  • His father sometimes joined in and later wrote a medieval fantasy adventure book based on the stories the group came up with, titled Sargon

    CNET News.com 2011

  • Shalmaneser (B.C. 723), one of the Assyrian generals established himself on the vacant throne, taking the name of "Sargon," after that of the famous monarch, the Sargon of Accad, founder of the first Semitic empire, as well as of one of the most famous libraries of Chaldea.

    Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

  • "Sargon," said he, "Thou art interfering in affairs not thy own.

    The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt Boles��aw Prus 1879

  • II]] with the conquest of Samaria; Ussher positively identifies this "Sargon" as Shalmaneser's successor [[Sennacherib]].

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

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