Shalmaneser

Shalmaneser is the name of several Assyrian kings:

• Shalmaneser I (1274 BC – 1245 BC or 1265 BC - 1235 BC)
• Shalmaneser II, King of Assyria from 1031 BC to 1019 BC
• Shalmaneser III, king of Assyria (859 BC-824 BC)
• Shalmaneser IV, king of Assyria (783 - 773 BC)
• Shalmaneser V, king of Assyria (727 - 722 BC) and Biblical conqueror of Israel (Northern Kingdom)

See also

• A salmanazar is a 9-litre bottle of wine; see Wine bottle sizes
• Shalmaneser is also the name of a powerful computer in John Brunner's science fiction novel Stand on Zanzibar
• George Psalmanazar, a famous European imposter who posed as a Formosan immigrant and was named after the Biblical Shalmaneser.