Assyria

:For the Assyrian people in Iraq and other countries, see Assyrian people.

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Assyria in earliest historical times referred to a region on the Upper Tigris river, named for its original capital, the city of Ashur. Later, as a nation and Empire, it also came to include roughly the northern half of Mesopotamia (the southern half being 'Babylonia').

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Assyria proper was located in a mountainous region, extending along the Tigris as far as the high Gordiaean or Carduchian mountain range of Armenia, sometimes called the "Mountains of Ashur".

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Tigris: The Tigris (Old Persian: Tigr, Aramaic Assyrian: Deqlath, Arabic: دجلة, Dijla, Turkish: Dicle; Hebrew: ?????; biblical Hiddekel) is the eastern member of the pair of great rivers that define Mesopotamia, along with the Euphrates, which flows from the mountains of Anatolia thr...

Ashur: Ashur (; often also transliterated as Asshur to reflect the pointing of Hebrew letter (Shin) in the Masoretic text, which doubles the '?'), was the second son of Shem, the son of Noah. Ashur's brothers were Elam, Aram, Arpachshad and Lud....

Mesopotamia: :For other uses see Mesopotamia (disambiguation)....

Assyria related Images and Photos (experimental)

Cuneiform Brick Shalmaneser III King of Assyria Temple in the City of Calah c.859-824 BC

Hexagonal Cylinder of Sennacherib King of Assyria 705Bc-681 BC