Nineveh
Sign in to saveNineveh 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.
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Nineveh was an ancient Mesopotamian city located in what is now northern Iraq that served as the capital and largest city of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and was likely the wealthiest city in the ancient world. The name Nineveh survives today in modern Iraq, applied to the eastern half of Mosul and to an entire governorate in the country.
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Key facts
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- Nineveh
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- Nineveh - Mashki Gate.jpg
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- The reconstructed Mashki Gate of Nineveh (since destroyed by the Islamic State)
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- Iraq#Near East
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- Ancient site.location
- Mosul, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq
- Ancient site.region
- Mesopotamia
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- Settlement
- Ancient site.built
- 3000 BC
- Ancient site.abandoned
- 612 BC
- Ancient site.event
- Fall of Nineveh
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- 1845–1852, 1873–1874, 1885–1891, 1904–1905, 1929–1932, 1951–1958, 1967–1971, 1987–1990, 2019–2023
Article
32 sectionsContents
- Name
- Geography
- History
- Neolithic
- Chalcolithic
- Ubaid period
- Uruk period
- Early Bronze Age
- Ninevite 5 period
- Akkadian period
- Middle Bronze
- Late Bronze
- Mitanni period
- Middle Assyrian period
- Iron Age
- Neo-Assyrian period
- <span id="Sennacherib's_Nineveh"></span>Sennacherib's development of Nineveh
- After Ashurbanipal
- Persian period
- Classical period
- Late Antiquity
- Biblical Nineveh
- Archaeology
- Archaeological remains
- Threats to the site
- Rogation of the Ninevites (Nineveh's Wish)
- In popular culture
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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.
It was the largest city in the world for approximately fifty years until the year 612 BC when, after a bitter period of civil war in Assyria, it was sacked by a coalition of its former subject peoples including the Babylonians, Medes, and Scythians. The city was never again a political or administrative centre, but by Late Antiquity it was the seat of a bishop of the Church of the East. It declined relative to Mosul during the Middle Ages and was mostly abandoned by the 14th century AD after the massacres and dispersal of Assyrian Christians by Timur.