Akkadians

Akkad, ancient realm in what is now important Iraq. Akkad was the northwestern partition of ancient Babylonian refinement. The region was placed roughly in the sphere where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers are smallest to each other, and its northern limit great beyond the line of the modern cities of Al-Fallujah and Baghdad. The early inhabitants of this region were predominantly Semitic, and their speech is called Akkadian. To the south of the area of Akkad lay Sumer, the southeastern division of ancient Babylonia, which was settled by a non-Semitic people known as Sumerians.

The name of Akkad was taken from the city of Agade, which was established by the Semitic conqueror Sargon in about 2300 bce. Sargon linked the different city-states in the region and gone his rule to cover much of Mesopotamia. After the pass of Sargons dynasty in about 2150 bce, the central Iraq region was subject by a state jointly composed of Sumerians and Akkadians. Secondary the kings of Akkad, their Semitic language, famous as Akkadian, became a literary language that was written with the cuneiform system of writing. Akkadian is the oldest Semitic dialect still saved.

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