Zahiran

During the Mari–Ebla war (2300 BC) Zahiran was the site of a battle between Igrish-Halam King of Ebla,[4][5][6][7] and Iblul-il, King of Mari.

[8][9] About a decade later it would be absorbed into the empire of Sargon of Akkad.

The town was sacked in the Battle of Nineveh (612 BC).

The chronicle of Aššur-uballit II, known as Chronicle 3,[10] states of the Battle of Nineveh between Babylonian and Assyrian armies that "in the month Âbu[broken anchor] the king of Akkad and his army went upstream to Mane, Sahiri and Bali-hu.

He plundered them, sacked them extensively and abducted their gods.