Nineveh

one of the seven wonders of ancient world

Nineveh was an ancient Near Eastern city of Upper Mesopotamia, located in the modern-day city of Mosul in northern Iraq. It is located on the eastern bank of the Tigris River and was the capital and largest city of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and potentially the wealthiest city in the ancient world. Today, it is a common name for the half of Mosul that lies on the eastern bank of the Tigris, and the country's Nineveh Governorate takes its name from it.

deuterocanonical, apocryphal story about Tobit & Anna and their son Tobias and his adventures with Raphael

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trade route throughout the middle east

Eastern Orthodox saint

627 battle

thumb|Portrait from Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum (1553) by [[Guillaume Rouillé]] Ninus (), according to Greek historians writing in the Hellenistic period and later, was the founder of Nineveh (also called Νίνου πόλις "city of Ninus" in Greek), ancient capital of Assyria. What figure or figures he may have been based on is uncertain; an identification with Shamshi-Adad I, Shamshi-Adad V, and/or a conflation of the two has been suggested.

son of Shem, the second son of Shem, son of Noah, ancestor of the Assyrians in Iraq and Syria

Records of the Assyrian king Sennacherib

612 BC battle that saw the fall of the Assyrian capital, and the climax of the Conquest of Assyria

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2002 film by Mike Nawrocki, Phil Vischer

assyrian palace relief

Šauška (Shaushka), also called Šauša or Šawuška, was the highest ranked goddess in the Hurrian pantheon. She was associated with love and war, as well as with incantations and by extension with healing. While she was usually referred to as a goddess and with feminine titles, such as allai (Hurrian: "lady"), references to masculine Šauška are also known. The Hurrians associated her with Nineveh, but she was also worshiped in many other centers associated with this culture, from Anatolian cities in Kizzuwatna, through Alalakh and Ugarit in Syria, to Nuzi and Ulamme in northeastern Mesopotamia. S

ancient Assyrian stone monolith

river in Iraq

Assyrian palace reliefs

cuneiform cylinder written by Neo-Assyrian king Ashurbanipal

1962 film by Primo Zeglio

1962 film by Silvio Amadio

painting by Filippino Lippi

three-day fast in Syriac Christianity

2021 video game