Nineveh

Nineveh, Assyrian Ninua (), was an important city in ancient Assyria now lying in the modern city of Mosul, Iraq. This "exceeding great city", as it is called in the Book of Jonah, lay on the eastern bank of the Tigris, along which it stretched for some 50 kilometres (30 miles), having an average breadth of 20 km (10 mi) or more from the river back toward the eastern hills. This whole extensive space is now one immense area of ruins.

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Situated at the confluence of the Tigris and Khosr, Nineveh was an important junction for commercial routes crossing the Tigris. Occupying a central position on the great highway between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, thus uniting the East and the West, wealth flowed into it from many sources, so that it became one of the greatest of all ancient cities.

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

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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...

Nineveh related Images and Photos (experimental)

Bridge at Nineveh Connecticut	The Great City of Nineveh	Famous Library of Kinf Ashur-Bani-Pal at Nineveh Illustration 'Hutchinson's History of Nations'	Recognition of Esarhaddon as King in Nineveh Illustration from 'Hutchinson's History of Nations'
Part of the Epic of Gilgamesh Telling the Babylonian Legend of the Flood from Nineveh