Accad

Accad, or AKKAD, was the SE. division of ancient Babylonia, as distinguished from Sumir, the NW. The Accadians were the dominant people in Babylonia at the time of the earliest records, though they seem originally to have come from the mountain country of Elam. To the Accadians, who were a non-Semitic people possibly allied to the Ugrian stock, the Assyrians attributed the origin of Babylonian civilisation and of the earliest form of cuneiform writing. There was also a city of Accad, one of the four great cities of the 'land of Shinar.' See BABYLONIA.