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CHAPTER III.
THE NORTH SYRIAN WAR
17. Trouble in Amki with the Khatti.
The next series are the letters which show
the gradual breaking up of the state of
peace, and the loss of Northern Syria.
The troubles seem to have begun in Central
Syria, and to have been provoked there by
attempts of the Egyptian allies to secure
more territory, trusting in their backing
from Egypt to support them. In this they
were disappointed, and so the power of
Egypt first showed its waning by abandon-
ing its friends.
The first four letters refer to attacks on
Amki, which by its name (the " hollow " or
"deep place") was a large valley, and by
its position must have been the upper part
of the Litany river, inland from Beyrut.
The chiefs about the lower Litany, at the
bend of the river, thought that they could
capture the upper part of the valley.
THE NORTH SYRIAN WAR
17. Trouble in Amki with the Khatti.
The next series are the letters which show
the gradual breaking up of the state of
peace, and the loss of Northern Syria.
The troubles seem to have begun in Central
Syria, and to have been provoked there by
attempts of the Egyptian allies to secure
more territory, trusting in their backing
from Egypt to support them. In this they
were disappointed, and so the power of
Egypt first showed its waning by abandon-
ing its friends.
The first four letters refer to attacks on
Amki, which by its name (the " hollow " or
"deep place") was a large valley, and by
its position must have been the upper part
of the Litany river, inland from Beyrut.
The chiefs about the lower Litany, at the
bend of the river, thought that they could
capture the upper part of the valley.