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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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 (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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    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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    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 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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