Background
Yarim-Lim ascended the throne after his father was killed in 1780 during his campaigns against Shamshi-Adad.
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Early and Conflicts
Yarim-Lim was the son and successor of the first king Sumu-Epuh and his queen Sumunna-Abi. His alliance with Hammurabi was credited with saving Babylon from an Assyrian attack by attacking their rear. In 1777 Yarim-Lim conquered the city of Tuttul, on the confluence of the rivers Balikh and Euphrates.
He appointed his ally, Zimri-Lim, the heir to the throne of Mari who was living in exile at his court, as king.
When Shamshi-Adad died in 1776, he helped Zimrilim regain his throne in Mari and oust Yasmah-Adad. The alliance between Mari and Yamhad was cemented with the royal marriage between Zimrilim and Yarim-Lim"s daughter Shibtu, two days after the marriage ceremony queen Sumunna-Abi died.
= Relations with Mari Zimri-Lim ascension to the throne with the help of Yarim-Lim I effected Mari status, Zimri-Lim referred to Yarim-Lim as his father and acted under the guidance of Aleppo main deity Hadad of which Yarim-Lim was the mediator. The tablets of Mari recorded many events that revealed Zimri-Lim subordination.
On two occasions Zimri-Lim demanded the extradition of his subordinates from Yarim-Lim I, the first case was related to a vassal king of Zimri-Lim who addressed him as a brother instead of a father and the demand was refused, while the second was through the Mariote ambassador in Aleppo Daris-Libur in which Zimri-Lim asked for some fugitives to which Yarim-Lim answered with decline twice before agreeing on the Mariote ambassador third attempt.
At one instance Nur-Sin the Mariote ambassador in Aleppo wrote to his master for the handing of an estate called Alahtum to Hadad (meaning Aleppo), and in another instance, Ibal-pi-el offered peace and fixing the borders to Zimri-Lim who sent envoys to Yarim-Lim asking for authorization which wasn"t given, leading Zimri-Lim to refuse the treaty on three different occasions. Later and Succession
Yarim-Lim extended his influence to several other important city-states in Syria through alliance and vassalage, including Urshu and the rich kingdom of Ugarit. The relationship between Qatna and Yamhad seems to have improved during Yarim-Lim"s reign as well.
The armies of Aleppo campaigned as far as Elam near the modern southern Iraqi-Iranian borders, a tablet discovered at mari revealed the extent of those military interventions in Mesopotamia, the tablet includes a declaration of war against Dēr and Diniktum in retaliation for their Evil deeds, a reminder to the king of Dēr about the military help given to him for fifteen years by Yarim-Lim and the stationing of 500 Aleppan warships for twelve years in Diniktum.
By the time of his death, Yarim-Lim, had more than twenty kings as vassals and allies. Bibliography.
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He was able to stand up to Shamshi-Adad by surrounding him with deft alliances with Hammurabi of Babylon and Ibal-pi-el II of Eshnunna.
