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Nineveh

Nineveh
Nineveh mashki gate from west.JPG
The reconstructed Mashki Gate of Nineveh
Nineveh is located in Iraq
Nineveh
Shown within Iraq
Location Mosul, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq
Region Mesopotamia
Coordinates 36°21′34″N 43°09′10″E / 36.35944°N 43.15278°E / 36.35944; 43.15278Coordinates: 36°21′34″N 43°09′10″E / 36.35944°N 43.15278°E / 36.35944; 43.15278
Type Settlement
Area 7.5 km2 (2.9 sq mi)
History
Abandoned 612 BC
Events Battle of Nineveh (612 BC)

Nineveh (/ˈnɪnɪvə/ or /ˈnɪnəvə/; Akkadian: Ninua) was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located on the outskirts of Mosul in modern-day northern Iraq. It is on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, and was the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.

It was the largest city in the world for some fifty years until the year 612 BC when, after a bitter period of civil war in Assyria itself, it was sacked by a coalition of its former subject peoples, the Babylonians, Medes, Chaldeans, Persians, Scythians and Cimmerians.  Its ruins are across the river from the modern-day major city of Mosul (which itself emerged from the 5th century BC Assyrian town of Mépsila), in the Ninawa Governorate of Iraq. The two main tells, or mound-ruins, within the walls are Kouyunjik (Kuyuncuk), the Northern Palace, and Tell Nabī Yūnus.


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