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noun - an ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq
An ancient empire and civilization of western Asia in the upper valley of the Tigris River.
ASSYRIA - Assyria (), also called the Assyrian Empire, was a major Semitic speaking Mesopotamian kingdom and empire of the ancient Near East and the Levant. It...
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| In the 1840s Sir Henry Layard excavated Nineveh, capital of this ancient neighbor of Babylonia |
| Sennacherib, king of this country, made Nineveh his capital & built a magnificent new palace there |
| Add 2 letters to a modern Mideast country to get this kingdom once ruled by Sennacherib |
| It was an ancient empire on the upper Tigris River |
| II Kings recounts the slaughter by an angel of the Lord of 185,000 soldiers of this kingdom to the north of Israel |
| Ashur was the national god of this ancient Mesopotamian kingdom named for him |
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| Assyria (), also called the Assyrian Empire, was a major Semitic speaking Mesopotamian kingdom and empire of the ancient Near East and the Levant. It existed as a state from perhaps as early as the 25th century BC in the form of the Assur city-state, until its collapse between 612 BC and 609 BC, spanning the Early to Middle Bronze Age through to the late Iron Age. From the end of the seventh century BC to the mid-seventh century AD, it survived as a geopolitical entity, for the most part ruled by foreign powers, although a number of Neo-Assyrian states arose at different times during the Parthian and early Sasanian Empires between the mid-second century BC and late third century AD, a period which also saw Assyria become a major centre of Syriac Christianity and the birthplace of the Church of the East.Centered on the Tigris in Upper Mesopotamia (modern northern Iraq, northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey and the northwestern fringes of Iran), the Assyrians came to rule powerful empi |