title: Shalmaneser
text: # Shalmaneser
  
  Shalmaneser (Salmānu-ašarēd) was the name of five kings of Assyria:
  
  * Shalmaneser I (r. c.  1274–1245 BC)
  * Shalmaneser II (r. 1030–1019 BC)
  * Shalmaneser III (r. 859–824 BC)
  * Shalmaneser IV (r. 783–773 BC)
  * Shalmaneser V (r. 727–722 BC), who appears in the Bible as the conqueror of the Kingdom of Israel
  
  It may also refer to:
  
  * Shalmaneser, an artificial intelligence in John Brunner's 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar
  * Salmanazar, a wine bottle size measuring 9 litres
  * George Psalmanazar (c. 1679–1763), a Frenchman who posed as a Formosan immigrant
  