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Nineveh

Nineveh was an ancient Near Eastern city of Upper Mesopotamia, located in the modern-day city of Mosul in northern Iraq. It is located on the eastern bank of the Tigris River and was the capital and largest city of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and potentially the wealthiest city in the ancient world. Today, it is a common name for the half of Mosul that lies on the eastern bank of the Tigris, and the country's Nineveh Governorate takes its name from it.

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Nineveh was an ancient Mesopotamian city located in what is now northern Iraq that served as the capital and largest city of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and was likely the wealthiest city in the ancient world. The name Nineveh survives today in modern Iraq, applied to the eastern half of Mosul and to an entire governorate in the country.

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Ancient site.name: Nineveh
Ancient site.image: Nineveh - Mashki Gate.jpg
Ancient site.caption: The reconstructed Mashki Gate of Nineveh (since destroyed by the Islamic State)
Ancient site.map_type: Iraq#Near East
Ancient site.relief: yes
Ancient site.location: Mosul, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq
Ancient site.region: Mesopotamia
Ancient site.type: Settlement
Ancient site.built: 3000 BC
Ancient site.abandoned: 612 BC
Ancient site.event: Fall of Nineveh
Ancient site.excavations: 1845–1852, 1873–1874, 1885–1891, 1904–1905, 1929–1932, 1951–1958, 1967–1971, 1987–1990, 2019–2023
Ancient site.archaeologists: Austen Henry Layard, Hormuzd Rassam, Leonard William King, Reginald Campbell Thompson, Mohammed Ali Mustafa, David Stronach

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Image: Nineveh mashki gate from west.JPG

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Commons category: Nineveh
dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 0612-00-00
P8168: Freguesia de Agadão

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Name
Geography
History
Neolithic
Chalcolithic
Ubaid period
Uruk period
Early Bronze Age
Ninevite 5 period
Akkadian period
Middle Bronze
Late Bronze
Mitanni period
Middle Assyrian period
Iron Age
Neo-Assyrian period
<span id="Sennacherib's_Nineveh"></span>Sennacherib's development of Nineveh
After Ashurbanipal
Persian period
Classical period
Late Antiquity
Biblical Nineveh
Archaeology
Archaeological remains
Threats to the site
Rogation of the Ninevites (Nineveh's Wish)
In popular culture
See also
Notes
References
Further reading
External links

It was the largest city in the world for approximately fifty years until the year 612 BC when, after a bitter period of civil war in Assyria, it was sacked by a coalition of its former subject peoples including the Babylonians, Medes, and Scythians. The city was never again a political or administrative centre, but by Late Antiquity it was the seat of a bishop of the Church of the East. It declined relative to Mosul during the Middle Ages and was mostly abandoned by the 14th century AD after the massacres and dispersal of Assyrian Christians by Timur.