City in Syria, situated between the rivers Euphrates and Orontes, a position beneficial to trade, with access to north–south and east–west trade routes. During the early second millennium it was the capital of the kingdom of Yamhad, a state that controlled an area from the Mediterranean Sea to the Middle Euphrates valley and which was allied to the Mesopotamian Middle Bronze state of Mari.
Historical Dictionary of Mesopotamia. EdwART. 2012.