Zemar
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Zemar (Egypt. Smr; Akkad. Sumuru; Assyrian Simirra) was a Phoenician city in what is now Lebanon. Zemar was a major trade center. Its inhabitants, the Zemarites, are described in the Book of Genesis as one of the offshoots of Canaan.
Zemar (as "Sumura" or "Sumur") appears in the Amarna letters; an "Ahribta" is named as its ruler. It was under the guardianship of Rib-Hadda, king of Byblos, but revolted against him and joined Abdi-Ashirta's expanding kingdom of Amurru. Pro-Egyptian factions may have seized the city again but Abdi-Ashirta's son Aziru recaptured Zemar in the mid 14th century BCE.
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