'Ugarit

Ugarit with 24 thousand people was the largest city in what is now Suriyya (Syria) in 1360 BCE¹ when it was a vassal kingdom under the hegemony of Bi-ty (Upper and Lower Egypt). The city was taken by the Land of the City of Hattusa (Hittite Empire) in the 13th century but retained its status as a vassal kingdom. The city was destroyed in the first half of the 12th century BCE². Its ruins are called Ras Shamra.

External References

Ruins of 'Ugarit

Historical maps

Footnotes

1. Tables of the World's Largest Cities, "1360 B.C." table, in Tertius Chandler, Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth, 2nd ed. (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1987).
2. It was briefly re-occupied after the destruction, then abandoned until the Persian period according to James M. Weinstein, "Ugarit", in The Oxford Encylopedia of Ancient Egypt (Oxford University Press, 2001). The article does not mention its subsequent and final demise.