Third Dynasty of Ur

The term Ur III period (also 3rd dynasty of Ur) is the final section of the Sumerian story called ( short chronology: 2048 to 1940 BC or medium chronology: 2112-2004 BC). The term is increasingly replacing the Neusumerischen from the time its underlying assumptions are widely rejected since the 1990s.

The Ur III period is the time of the third dynasty of the ancient Sumerian city of Ur. Was founded the dynasty of Ur - Nammu. For the first and also the last time a large part of the city government actually dominated for long periods of Sumer was united under a Sumerian supremacy. As the ruler based on the Old Sumerian traditions, called the time also Sumerian Renaissance. It is marked on the inside of centralization and bureaucratization, but also by a reform of the law.

In the exterior, the time was marked by confrontations with the Elamites and Gutäern from the Iranian plateau to the north and the nomadic peoples on the borders of Sumer. So defeated the Sumerian empire of Ur a coalition of Elamites and nomadic Amurritern. Only ISBI Erra, a former general of King Ibbi -Sin could expel the invaders and founded the dynasty of Isin his hand.