Crossword clues for nineveh
nineveh
- Ancient city on the Tigris
- Capital of ancient Assyria
- Assyrian capital
- Where God sent Jonah
- Ancient Assyrian capital
- City where Jonah preached
- An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris across from the modern city of Mosul in the northern part of what is now known a Iraq
- An Assyrian capital
- Ancient capital of Assyria
- Ancient city crossed by ninety-nine vehicles
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nineveh \Nineveh\ prop. n. An ancient Assyrian city.
Wikipedia
Nineveh ( or ; ) was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located 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 an unusual coalition of former enemies, the Babylonians and the Chaldeans. Its ruins are across the river from the modern-day major city of Mosul, 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.
Nineveh was an ancient Middle Eastern city, founded by the Assyrians; now modern-day Mosul, Iraq.
Nineveh may also refer to:
- Nineveh Governorate, a province of Iraq
- Nineveh, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, a community in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Nineveh, Victoria County, Nova Scotia, a community in Victoria County, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Nineveh, Kent, England
- Nineveh, Worcestershire, England (three places)
- Nineveh, Indiana, an unincorporated community in Johnson County, Indiana, USA
- Nineveh, Missouri
- Nineveh, New York, an unincorporated hamlet in Broome County, New York, USA
- Nineveh, Pennsylvania
- Nineveh Creek, a river in Indiana
- Nineveh, Virginia, USA, an unincorporated community in Warren County, Virginia, USA
- Nineveh, Ship, Tanker launched in 1862, could carry 2888 barrels of oil
Usage examples of "nineveh".
And there are injured women awaiting, who would be better served by the chirurgeons of Nineveh than my poor endeavors.
Babylon and the shops of Thebes--in Tyre, in Sidon, in Gades, in Palmyra, in Nineveh.
There was a canon of religioun Amonges us, would infect* all a town, *deceive Though it as great were as was Nineveh, Rome, Alisandre,* Troy, or other three.
They in turn were vanquished by the followers of the great desert God, Ashur, who called themselves Assyrians and who made the city of Nineveh the center of a vast and terrible empire which conquered all of western Asia and Egypt and gathered taxes from countless subject races until the end of the seventh century before the birth of Christ when the Chaldeans, also a Semitic tribe, re-established Babylon and made that city the most important capital of that day.
But above that the brick wall was windowless except for the single tall crossbarred rectangle and he thought again of the Sunday nights which seemed now to belong to a time as dead as Nineveh when from suppertime until the jailer turned the lights out and yelled up the stairs for them to shut up, the dark limber hands would lie in the grimed interstices while the mellow untroubled repentless voices would shout down to the women in the aprons of cooks or nurses and the girls in their flash cheap clothes from the mail order houses or the other young men who had not been caught yet or had been caught and freed yesterday, gathered along the street.
He ordered the arrest of every man, woman, and child on the farm, then spoke to the press while P-Squad vans transported the prisonersincluding those critically woundedoff-site, presumably to one of the P-Squad interrogation centers like the main Intelligence Office on Nineveh Base.
Egypt of course must have appeared rather a declining country in those days under the rule of her half-barbaric shepherd kings, and if one took an interest in politics one must have noticed how the Semitic people seemed to be getting everywhere, ruling Egypt, ruling distant Babylon, building Nineveh on the upper Tigris, sailing west to the Pillars of Hercules (the straits of Gibraltar) and setting up their colonies on those distant coasts.
The wounded troop transport has made a safe landing, but the speed of my attack and that of the air force has forced its captain into the serious error of landing on the near side of Nineveh Base.
I grow uneasy as Phil climbs into his car and roars into the sprawling urban blight that has engulfed the ruins of Nineveh Base.