Nineveh is mentioned about 1800 BC as a worship place of Ištar, who was responsible for the city's early importance. There is no large body of evidence to show that Assyrian monarchs built at all extensively in Nineveh during the 2nd millennium BC. When Sennacherib made Ninua his capital at the end of the 8th century BC, it was already an ancient settlement. Later monarchs whose inscriptions have appeared on the Acropolis include Shalmaneser I and Tiglath-Pileser I, both of whom were active builders in Asshur; the former had founded Calah ( ...

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Today, Nineveh's location is marked by two large mounds, Kouyunjik and Nabī Yūnus "Prophet Jonah", and the remains of the city walls (about 12 km/7.5 mi in circumference). Kouyunjik has been extensively explored. The other mound, Nabī Yūnus, has not been extensively explored because there is a Muslim shrine dedicated to that prophet on the site. In the 19th century, the French consul at Mosul began to search the vast mounds that lay along the opposite bank of the river. The Arabs whom he employed in these excavations ...

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627 - Events. April 11: Paulinus, a Roman missionary, baptizes King Edwin of Deira December 12: Battle of Nineveh: Byzantine Emperor Heraclius defeats the Persians ending the Roman-Persian Wars. Battle of the Trench: An Early Muslim battle. 627 - Deaths. November 10: Justus, Archbishop of Canterbury Category: 627 ...

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Ashur (אַשּׁוּר), was the son of Shem, the son of Noah. Ashur's brothers were Elam, Aram, Arpachshad and Lud. The Hebrew text of Gen. 10:11 is somewhat ambiguous as to whether it was Ashur himself (eg. as reads the KJV), or Nimrod who built the cities of Nineveh, etc. in Assyria, since the name Ashur can refer to either the person or the country. Categories: Ancient Egypt | Assyria | Tanakh places ...

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Harran, also known as Carrhae, is an archeological site in present day southeastern Turkey, 24 miles (39 kilometers) southeast of Sanli Urfa. In its prime, it controlled the point where the road from Damascus joins the highway between Nineveh and Carchemish. This location gave Harran strategic value from an early date. It is frequently mentioned in Assyrian inscriptions as early as the time of Tiglath-Pileser I, about 1100 BC, under the name Harranu, or "Road"( Akkadian harrānu, road, path, journey ). After the Shupiluliuma-Shattiwazza treaty, Harran was burned by a Hittite army under Piyashshili ...

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The book of Nahum is a book in the Bible's Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh. Nahum prophesied, according to some, in the beginning of the reign of Ahaz (740s BC). Others, however, think that his prophecies are to be referred to the latter half of the reign of Hezekiah (700s BC). Probably the book was written in Jerusalem, where he witnessed the invasion of Sennacherib and the destruction of his host (2 Kings 19:35). The subject of this prophecy is the approaching complete and final destruction of Nineveh, the capital of t ...

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Ninus was accepted in texts arising in Hellenistic period and later as the eponymous founder of Nineveh, and thus the city itself personified. He was said to have been the son of Belus or Bel, to have conquered in 17 years the whole of western Asia with the help of Ariaeus, king of Arabia, and to have founded the first empire. During the siege of Bactra he met Semiramis, the wife of one of his officers, Onnes, whom he took from her husband and married. The fruit of t ...

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Nimrud is an ancient Assyrian city located south of Nineveh on the river Tigris. The ancient city covered an area of around 16 square miles. Ruins of the city are found in modern day Iraq, some 30 km southeast of Mosul. The Arabs called the city Nimrud after Nimrod, a legendary Assyrian hunting hero, the father of the Assyrian founder Ashur (Assur). Nimrud has been identified as the site of the biblical city of Calah or Kalakh [kä'läkh]. It was founded by Assyrian king Shalmaneser I in the 13th century BC a ...

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The Right Honourable Sir Austen Henry Layard (5 March 1817–5 July 1894) was a British author and diplomatist, best known as the excavator of Nineveh. He was born in Paris. The Layards were of Huguenot descent. His father, Henry PJ Layard, of the Ceylon Civil Service, was the son of Charles Peter Layard, dean of Bristol, and grandson of Daniel Peter Layard, the physician. Through his mother, a daughter of Nathaniel Austen, banker, of Ramsgate, he inherited Spanish blood. His uncle was Benjamin Austen, a London solicitor and ...

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Ashurbanipal, or Assurbanipal, (reigned 669 - 627 BCE), the son of Esarhaddon and Naqi'a-Zakutu, was the last great king of ancient Assyria. He is famous as one of the few kings in antiquity who could himself read and write. Assyrian sculpture reached its apogee under his rule (Northern palace and south-western palace at Nineveh, battle of Ulai). The Greeks knew him as Sardanapal; Latin and other medieval texts refer to him as Sardanapalus. In the Bible he is called ...

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(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium) 7th century BC - Overview. 7th century BC - Events. the Cimmerians ravage Phrygia in 696 BC, possible migration of the Armenians Scythians arrived in Asia Collapse of Susa, end of Elamite Empire Assyrians conquer Egypt (674 BC - 670 BC) Collapse of Nineveh, end of Assyria (612 BC) 7th century BC - Significant persons. Hezekiah of the ...

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The Battle of Karkar (or Qarqar) was fought in 853 BC when the army of Assyria, led by king Shalmaneser III, encountered an allied army of 12 kings at Karkar led by Hadadezer of Damascus. This battle is notable for having a larger number of combatants than any previous battle, and for being the first instance some peoples enter recorded history (such as the Arabs). It is recorded on The Kurkh Monolith. According to the inscription of Shalmaneser which he later erected, he had started his annual campaign, leaving Nineveh ...

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Centuries: 9th century BC - 8th century BC - 7th century BC Decades: 830s BC 820s BC 810s BC 800s BC 790s BC - 780s BC - 770s BC 760s BC 750s BC 740s BC 730s BC 780s BC - Events and trends. 789 BC - Nineveh destroyed 780 BC - The first historic solar eclipse is recorded in China. 783 BC - Shalmaneser IV succeeds his father Adad-nirari III as king of Assyria 782 BC - Death of Zhou xuan wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China. 781 BC - Zhou you w ...

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Centuries: 9th century BC - 8th century BC - 7th century BC Decades: 750s BC 740s BC 730s BC 720s BC 710s BC - 700s BC - 690s BC 680s BC 670s BC 660s BC 650s BC 700s BC - Events and trends. 708 BC - Spartan immigrants found Taras (Tarentum, the modern Taranto) colony in southern Italy. 705 BC - Sennacherib succeeds his brother Shalmaneser V as king of Assyria 704 BC - Sennacherib moves the capital of Assyira back to Nineveh 701 BC - King Hezekiah ...

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(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium) 8th century BC - Overview. 8th century BC - Events. Assyria conquers Damascus and Samaria Nineveh destroyed (789 BC) First recorded Olympic Games held in Greece (776 BC) Zhou Dynasty moved its capital to Luoyang (771 BC); The Spring and Autumn Period (771-481 BC) began. According to tradition, Rome founded (753 BC, 21 April) Destruction of the Kingdom of Israel by Assyrian ...

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August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 143 days remaining. The term "the 10th of August" is widely used by historians as a shorthand for the Storming of the Tuileries Palace on August 10, 1792, the effective end of the French monarchy until it was restored in 1814. August 10 - Events. 612 BC - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh. AD 955 - Battle of Lechfeld: O ...

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Centuries: 8th century BC - 7th century BC - 6th century BC Decades: 670s BC 660s BC 650s BC 640s BC 630s BC - 620s BC - 610s BC 600s BC 590s BC 580s BC 570s BC 620s BC - Events and trends. 627 BC - Death of Assurbanipal, king of Assyria; he is succeeded by Assur-etel-ilani (approximate date) 626 BC - Nabopolassar revolts against Assyria, founds the Neo-Babylonian Empire. 625 BC - Medes and Babylonians assert their independence from Assyria and attack ...

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Jonah (יוֹנָה "Dove", Standard Hebrew Yona, Latin Ionas, Tiberian Hebrew Yônāh) was a person in the Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh, the son of Amittai, from the Galilean village of Gath-hepher, near Nazareth. He was a prophet of the ten-tribe kingdom of Israel, and predicted the restoration of the ancient boundaries (2 Kings 14:25-27) of the kingdom. This prophecy was already fulfilled during the reign of Jeroboam II, under whom Jonah exercised his ministry. Timewise, this may mean he ...

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The Book of Tobit (or Book of Tobias in older Catholic Bibles) is a book of scripture that is part of the Catholic and Orthodox biblical canon, pronounced canonical by the Council of Carthage of 397 and confirmed for Roman Catholics by the Council of Trent (1546). Tobit is regarded by Protestants as apocryphal. It has never been considered an integral part of the Tanach, the Hebrew Old Testament, but Aramaic and Hebrew fragments of the book were discovered in Cave IV at Qumran in 1955. These fragments are generally in ag ...

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