Flashcards: Assyria

Tell Leilan is an archaeological site situated near the Wadi Jarrah in the Khabur River basin in Al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria, a region formerly a part of ancient Assyria.

Roman Armenia refers to the rule of parts of Greater Armenia by the Roman Empire, from the 1st century AD to the end of Late Antiquity.

Tabal (c.f. biblical Tubal) was a Luwian speaking Neo-Hittite kingdom of South Central Anatolia.

The Neo-Assyrian Empire was an Iron Age Mesopotamian empire, in existence between 911 and 612 BC.

The Book of Jonah is one of the Minor Prophets in the Bible.

Aššur (Akkadian; Syriac: ܐܫܘܪ‎ 'Āshūr; Hebrew: אַשּׁוּר‎‎ Aššûr, Arabic: اشور‎‎: Āshūr, Kurdish Asûr), also known as Ashur and Qal'at Sherqat, was an Assyrian city, capital of the Old Assyrian Empire (2025–1750 BC), Middle Assyrian Empire (1365–1050 BC), and for a time, the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–605 BC).

Ninus (Greek: Νίνος), according to Greek historians writing in the Hellenistic period and later, was accepted as the eponymous founder of Nineveh (also called Νίνου πόλις "city of Ninus" in Greek), ancient capital of Assyria.

The land of Subartu (Akkadian Šubartum/Subartum/ina Šú-ba-ri, Assyrian mât Šubarri) or Subar (Sumerian Su-bir4/Subar/Šubur) is mentioned in Bronze Age literature.

Assyria was a Roman province that lasted only two years (116–118 AD).

Ashur (also, Assur, Aššur; written A-šur, also Aš-šùr) is an East Semitic god, and the head of the Assyrian pantheon in Mesopotamian religion, worshipped mainly in the northern half of Mesopotamia, and parts of north-east Syria and south east Asia Minor which constituted old Assyria.

The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, named after Ashurbanipal, the last great king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, is a collection of thousands of clay tablets and fragments containing texts of all kinds from the 7th century BC.

Ahiqar or Ahikar was an Assyrian sage known in the ancient Near East for his outstanding wisdom.

The Middle Assyrian Empire is the period in the history of Assyria between the fall of the Old Assyrian Empire in the 1300s BC and the establishment of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in the 900s BC.

Kunukku (Akkadian), Kišib (Sumerian) is the term for the cylinder seals use approximately until the overthrow of the Assyrian Empire.

Ashurian (ܠܫܢܐ ܐܣܘܪܝܐ‎ Leššānā Assūrāyā) is a dialect of Middle Aramaic that was once that was once the dialect of the region encompassing the cities of Assur and Hatra and the Nineveh plains in the centre, up to Tur Abdin in the north, Dura-Europos in the west and Tikrit in the south.

The Old Assyrian Empire is one of three periods in which the history of Assyria is divided, the other two being: the Middle Assyrian Empire and the Neo-Assyrian Empire.

The Assyrian eclipse, also known as Bur-Sagale (Bur-Saggile, Pur-Sagale or Par-Sagale) eclipse, was a solar eclipse that occurred on 15 June 763 BCE (proleptic Julian calendar).

Old Aramaic refers to the earliest stage of the Aramaic language, taken to give way to Middle Aramaic by the 3rd century (a conventional date is the rise of the Sassanid Empire in 224 CE).