Akkad

Akkad¹, also spelled Accad and called Agade in Sumerian, was the center of an eponymous state and, in 2250 B.C.E., was the world's second largest city--the largest ten years later.² By the early 21st century B.C.E. the state had diminished or vanished, and the city eventually fell into ruin.

External References

Victory Stele of Naram-Sin, King of Akkad and Grandson of Sargon of Akkad. At the Louvre.

Footnotes

1. In Akkadian and Sumerian, the city name was written in Cuneiform. This cannot be rendered in most browsers although unicode for it exists.
2. Tables of the World's Largest Cities, "2250 B.C." table and "list of cities that can have been largest", in Tertius Chandler, Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth, 2nd ed. (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1987).