Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , māt Aššur) was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization which existed as a city-state from the 21st century BC to...
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Mesopotamia (redirect from Babylonia and Assyria)
second millennium BC saw the polarization of Mesopotamian society into Assyria in the north and Babylonia in the south. From 900 to 612 BC, the Neo-Assyrian...
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Look up Assyria in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Assyria may refer to: Assyria, an ancient empire in Mesopotamia Either of two provinces of the Persian...
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Neo-Assyrian Empire (redirect from Rise of Neo-Assyria)
during the late 11th century BC. Under Ashurnasirpal II (r. 883–859 BC), Assyria once more became the dominant power of the Near East, ruling the north...
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involved in rivalry with the older ethno-linguistically related state of Assyria in the north of Mesopotamia and Elam to the east in Ancient Iran. Babylonia...
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List of Assyrian kings (redirect from King of Assyria)
The king of Assyria (Akkadian: Iššiʾak Aššur, later šar māt Aššur) was the ruler of the ancient Mesopotamian kingdom of Assyria, which was founded in...
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Assyria Township is a civil township of Barry County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 1,992. The unincorporated...
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Persian: 𐎠𐎰𐎢𐎼𐎠 Aθurā Persian pronunciation: [aθuɾaː]), also called Assyria, was a geographical area within the Achaemenid Empire in Upper Mesopotamia...
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Sargon II (redirect from Sargon II of Assyria)
kings. Assyria fell in the late 7th century BC. Though the local population of northern Mesopotamia never forgot ancient Assyria, knowledge of Assyria in...
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Ashurbanipal (section Becoming the heir to Assyria)
his death in 631. He is generally remembered as the last great king of Assyria. Ashurbanipal inherited the throne as the favored heir of his father Esarhaddon;...
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The Assyria Liberation Party or Gabo D'Furqono D'Othur (GFA, in Syriac: ܓܒܐ ܕܦܘܪܩܢܐ ܕܐܬܘܪ) was founded in 1995, and since 1997 the party has published...
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History of Mesopotamia (redirect from History of Babylonia and Assyria)
from Assyria by a king called Adasi. The nation remained relatively strong and stable, peace was made with the Kassite rulers of Babylonia, and Assyria was...
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Assyrian homeland (redirect from Demographics of Assyria)
The Assyrian homeland, Assyria (Classical Syriac: ܐܬܘܪ, romanized: Āṯōr or Classical Syriac: ܒܝܬ ܢܗܪ̈ܝܢ, romanized: Bêṯ Nahrin), refers to the homeland...
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Ancient Mesopotamian religion (redirect from Religion in ancient Assyria)
of the civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia, particularly Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia between circa 6000 BC and 400 AD. The religious development...
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Assyrian flag (redirect from Flag of assyria)
2019. S.G. SAVIGE. D.S.O., M.C. (1920). STALKY'S FORLORN HOPE. McCubbin. "Assyria". Crwflags.com. Archived from the original on October 12, 2008. Retrieved...
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Assur (redirect from Assyria (name))
being originally Indo-European derivations of Assyria, and for many centuries applying only to Assyria and the Assyrians (see Etymology of Syria) before...
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BC—Shalmaneser III of Assyria leads an expedition against the Tabareni. 836 BC—Civil war breaks out in Egypt. Adad-nirari III, king of Assyria, is born (approximate...
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Chaldees. These migrations did not affect the powerful kingdom and empire of Assyria in Upper Mesopotamia, which repelled these incursions. These nomadic Chaldeans...
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contemporary of Tukulti-Ninurta I of Assyria Enlil-nadin-shumi, Assyria installed governor (c.1224 BC) Kadashman-Harbe II, Assyria installed governor (c.1223 BC)...
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researchers consider Tiglath-Pileser's reign to mark the true transition of Assyria into an empire. The reforms and methods of control introduced under Tiglath-Pileser...
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History of the Assyrians (redirect from History of Assyria)
millennia, covering the history of the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of Assyria, including its territory, culture and people, as well as the later history...
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Histories he mentions that he will devote a whole section to the history of Assyria, but this promise was unfulfilled, or perhaps the book has been lost. Herodotus'...
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Assyriology (redirect from Modern discovery of Babylonia and Assyria)
Assyriology (from Greek Ἀσσυρίᾱ, Assyriā; and -λογία, -logia), also known as Cuneiform studies or Ancient Near East studies, is the archaeological, anthropological...
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Judah. 911 BC – Adad-nirari II succeeds his father Ashur-Dan II as king of Assyria. 911 BC – Abijah, king of Judah, dies. 910 BC – Nadab, king of Israel succeeds...
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Geography of Mesopotamia (redirect from Geography of babylonia and assyria)
Mesopotamia; it was marked off as Assyria after the rise of the Assyrian monarchy. Apart from Assur, the original capital of Assyria, the chief cities of the country...
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was defeated". The compilation of these years are called date lists. In Assyria, a royal official or limmū was selected in every year of a king's reign...
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Art of Mesopotamia (redirect from Art and architecture of Babylonia and Assyria)
Low-relief from the L wall of the palace of Sargon II at Dur Sharrukin in Assyria (modern-day Khorsabad in Iraq), c. 716–713 BC. Glazed terracotta tile from...
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Cuneiform (redirect from Proper names of Babylonia and Assyria)
cuneiform libraries – in the mid-19th century – were in the area of ancient Assyria. An estimated half a million tablets are held in museums across the world...
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from 939 BC to 930 BC. 934 BC—Ashur-dan II succeeds his father as King of Assyria. 934 BC—Zhou yi wang becomes king of the Zhou dynasty of China. 931 BC—Solomon...
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and East Syria. Assyria is the homeland of the Assyrian people, located in the ancient Near East. The earliest Neolithic sites in Assyria belonged to the...
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