Editing Shulgi (section)

===Armed conflicts===
While [[Der (Sumer)|Der]] had been one of the cities whose temple affairs Shulgi had directed in the first part of his reign, in his 20th year he claimed that the gods had decided that it now be destroyed, apparently as some punishment. The inscriptions state that he "put its field accounts in order" with the pick-axe. His 18th year-name was ''Year Liwir-mitashu, the king's daughter, was elevated to the ladyship in [[Marhashi]]'', referring to a country near Anshan and her dynastic marriage to its king, Libanukshabash.<ref>[https://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/articles/cdlj/2017-1]Chen, Yanli, and Yuhong Wu, "The Names of the Leaders and Diplomats of Marḫaši and Related Men in the  Ur III Dynasty", Cuneiform Digital Library Journal 2017 (1), 2017</ref> Following this, Shulgi engaged in a period of expansionism at the expense of highlanders such as the [[Lullubi]], and destroyed [[Simurrum]] (another [[mountain tribe]]) and [[Lullubi|Lulubum]] nine times between the 26th and 45th years of his reign.<ref name="Samuel Noah Kramer">{{Cite book |title=The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character |author=Samuel Noah Kramer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iY9xp4pLp88C&q=the+sumerians+Samuel+Noah+Kramer |publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]] |isbn=978-0-226-45238-8|date=2010-09-17 }}</ref> He is also known to have destroyed [[Karaḫar]], Harši, Šašrum, and Urbilum.<ref>[https://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/articles/cdlj/2009-5]Lafont, Bertrand, "The Army of the Kings of Ur: The Textual Evidence", Cuneiform Digital Library Journal 2009 (5), 2009</ref>
In his 30th year, his daughter was married to the governor of [[Anshan (Persia)|Anshan]]; in his 34th year, he was already levying a punitive campaign against the place. He also destroyed Kimaš and Ḫurti (cities to the east of [[Ur]], somewhere near [[Elam]]) in the 45th year of his reign.<ref>Ghobadizadeh, Hamzeh and Sallaberger, Walther, "Šulgi in the Kuhdasht Plain: Bricks from a Battle Monument at the Crossroads of Western Pish-e Kuh and the Localisation of Kimaš and Ḫurti", Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie, vol. 113, no. 1, pp. 3-33, 2023</ref><ref>Sebahi, Zahraa Abdel-Sada, and Jassim Abid Al-Ammer Jassim, "City ki-maški King Šulgi military campaigns on him the light of the published and unpublished cuneiform texts of the modern Sumerian period (2112-2004 BC)", ISIN Journal 4. pp. 121-146, 2022</ref> An inscribed brick recorded:
{{blockquote|text="Sulgi, god of his land the mighty, king of Ur, king of the four  quarters, when he destroyed the land of Kimas and Hurtum, set out a moat and heaped  up  a pile of corpses."<ref name="Frayne1997" />
}} As with many Mesopotamian rulers he dealt with nomadic incursion in his 37th year, he was obliged to build a large wall in an attempt to keep out the Tidnumite nomads.<ref name="Frayne1997" />