Crossword clues for assyria
assyria
- Ancient kingdom of Mesopotamia
- Ancient land in the Fertile Crescent
- Ancient empire on the Tigris
- Northern Iraq, a long time ago
- Nineveh's region
- Nineveh's empire
- Nineveh was one of its capitals
- Ancient Near East empire
- Ancient Middle East kingdom — Ira says (anag)
- Ancient kingdom whose capital was Nineveh
- Ancient kingdom on the Tigris
- Ancient empire in the cradle of civilization
- Ancient empire along the Tigris
- Ancient empire
- Ancient Asian empire
- 900-year Mesopotamian kingdom that, if you took away the first two letters, is the name of a country in the area it used to occupy
- Nineveh's nation
- Semiramis's realm
- Semiramis's domain
- Nineveh's home
- Where Ashur was the supreme deity
- Nineveh's land
- Nineveh's kingdom
- Where the biblical lost tribes were held captive
- Old Fertile Crescent land
- Sennacherib's domain
- Sennacherib's empire
- Nineveh was its capital
- Ancient empire whose capital was Nineveh
- Empire once so small and insubstantial to overturn
- Old country bumpkin has picked up light
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Middle English, from Latin Assyria, from Greek Assyria, short for Assyria ge "the Assyrian land," from fem. of Assyrios "pertaining to Assyria," from Akkadian Ashshur, name of the chief city of the kingdom and also of a god, probably from Assyrian sar "prince." (See also Syria).
Wikipedia
Assyria, a major Mesopotamian East Semitic-speaking kingdom and empire of the ancient Near East, existed as an independent state from perhaps as early as the 25th century BC, until its collapse between 612 BC and 599 BC, spanning the mid to Early Bronze Age through to the late Iron Age.
From the end of the seventh century BC to the mid-seventh century AD, it survived as a geopolitical entity, for the most part ruled by foreign powers, although the Neo-Assyrian Empire and successor states arose at different times during the Parthian and early Sasanian Empires between the mid-second century BC and late third century AD, a period which also saw Assyria become a major centre of Syriac Christianity and the birthplace of the Church of the East.
Centered on the Tigris in Upper Mesopotamia (modern northern Iraq, northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey and the northwestern fringes of Iran), the Assyrians came to rule powerful empires at several times. Making up a substantial part of the greater Mesopotamian " cradle of civilization", which included Sumer, the Akkadian Empire, and Babylonia, Assyria was at the height of technological, scientific and cultural achievements for its time. At its peak, the Assyrian empire stretched from Cyprus in the Mediterranean Sea to Iran, and from what is now Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Caucasus, to the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt and eastern Libya.
Assyria is named after its original capital, the ancient city of Aššur, which dates to c. 2600 BC, originally one of a number of Akkadian city states in Mesopotamia. In the 25th and 24th centuries BC, Assyrian kings were pastoral leaders. From the late 24th century BC, the Assyrians became subject to Sargon of Akkad, who united all the Akkadian- and Sumerian-speaking peoples of Mesopotamia under the Akkadian Empire, which lasted from c. 2334 BC to 2154 BC.
After its fall, the greater remaining part of Assyria was geopolitical region and province of other nations between the mid-2nd century BC and late 3rd century AD, with a patchwork of small independent Assyrian kingdoms adjacent to it. The region of Assyria fell under the successive control of the Medes, the Achaemenid Empire, the Seleucid Empire, the Parthian Empire, the Roman Empire, and the Sasanian Empire. The Muslim conquest of Persia in the mid-seventh century finally dissolved it as a single entity, after which the remnants of the Assyrian people gradually became an ethnic, linguistic, cultural and religious minority in the Assyrian homeland, surviving there to this day as the indigenous people of the region.
Assyria was a Roman province that lasted only two years (116–118 AD).
Assyria may refer to:
- Assyria, an ancient empire in Mesopotamia
- Either of two provinces of the Persian Empire:
- Achaemenid Assyria, also known as Athura
- Asuristan (Sassanid)
- Assyria (Roman province), province of the Roman Empire
- Asuristan, the Sassanid province
-
Assyrian homeland, the current geographical location of today's modern Assyrians
- A modern term referring to the establishment of a state for the Assyrian people, see Assyrian independence
- Assyria Township, Michigan
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, the commonly spoken language by the modern Assyrians
Usage examples of "assyria".
These three copies were, by order of the King of Assyria, Asshurbanabal, made in the eighth century B.
What king of Assyria, or Greece, or Rome, or even of these modern nations, has ever devoted himself to the study of medicine and the writing of medical books for the benefit of mankind?
I argue from these facts, not that the worship of Baal came to Ireland and Norway from Assyria or Arabia, but that the same great parent-race which carried the knowledge of Baal to the Mediterranean brought it also to the western coasts of Europe, and with the adoration of Baal they imported also the implements of bronze now found in such abundance in those regions.
Egypt and Assyria handicrafts had already come to a stage which could only have been reached by thousands of years of progress.
But I am not prepared to believe that God has left it to Satan to devise so fearful a scheme for prosecuting his evil designs as that of making the demons of Ashdod and Assyria take the names of mortal men, while teeming to follow mortal occupations.
After millennia, the gods and goddesses of Sumer, Babylon, and Assyria again breathed the air of the world they had once ruled.
After that came Assyria, whose fearsome armies are credited with the first systematic application of the science of military logistics.
For more than a millennium after the fall of Babylon and Assyria, the lands of Iraq would be ruled by empires out of what would become Iran.
Babylon and Assyria, the lands of Iraq would be ruled by empires out of what would become Iran.
The speaker was a tall, authoritative-looking man of rather outlandish aspect, remarkable among other things for a full black beard, worn in a style more in vogue in early Assyria than in a London suburb of the present day.
Ancestors of Mott and Strabismus had chosen opposing sides in Assyria and at Stonehenge.
Rawlinson informs us that even Aryan roots are mingled with Presemitic in some of the old inscriptions of Assyria.
Assyria, rather than at the severe consistory of a Roman pontiff, whose solemn duty it is to exhibit in every act the sanctity of the name he bears.
For a time Assyria expanded, but eventually it fell into stagnation and merely defended itself against the nomads from the south, the Arameans.
For I knew at Corinth a certain man of Assyria, who would give answers in every part of the City, and for the gaine of money would tell every man his fortune, to some he would tel the dayes of their marriages, to others he would tell when they should build, that their edifices should continue.