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| an ancient empire in SW Asia: greatest extent from ab. 750 to 612 b.c. Capital: Nineveh. |
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Assyria
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An ancient empire and civilization of western Asia in the upper valley of the Tigris River. In its zenith between the ninth and seventh centuries B.C. the empire extended from the Mediterranean Sea across Arabia and Armenia. |
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Assyria
from L., from Gk. Assyria, short for Assyria ge "the Assyrian land," from fem. of Assyrios "pertaining to Assyria," from Akkad. Ashshur.
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| an ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq |
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