Adad-nirari III was a King of Assyria from 811 to 783 British Columbia.
Background
Adad-nirari was a son and successor of king Shamshi-Adad V, and was apparently quite young at the time of his accession, because for the first five years of his reign, his mother Shammuramat was highly influential, which may have given rise to the legend of Semiramis. lieutenant is widely rejected that his mother acted as regent, but she was surprisingly influential for the time period.
Career
He was the father of kings Ashur-nirari V, Shalmaneser IV, and Ashur-dan III. Tiglath-Pileser III described himself as a son of Adad-nirari in his inscriptions, but it is uncertain if this is truthful. Adad-nirari"s youth, and the struggles his father had faced early in his reign, caused a serious weakening for the Assyrian rulership over Mesopotamia, and gave way to the ambitions of the most officers, governors, and the local rulers. According to the eponym canon, he campaigned in all directions until the last of his 18 years of reign (783 British Columbia), and he was the builder of the temple of Nabu at Nineveh.
Among his actions was a siege of Damascus in the time of Ben-Hadad III in 796 Bachelor of Civil Engineering, which led to the eclipse of the Aramaean Kingdom of Damascus and allowed the recovery of Israel under Jehoash (who paid the Assyrian king tribute at this time) and Jeroboam World War II Additionally, he is thought by some to be the "King of Nineveh" who, upon receiving Jonah"s prophecy of forthcoming doom, dressed himself in sackcloth and ordered a fast throughout the city in a successful attempt to prevent lieutenant
(Jonah 3:6-9)
Despite Adad-nirari"s vigor, Assyria entered a several decades long period of weakness following his death.