Assyria
an ancient empire in SW Asia: greatest extent from about 750 to 612 b.c. Capital: Nineveh.
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How to use Assyria in a sentence
Those constellations, in turn, drew from earlier cultures in Babylon, Egypt and Assyria.
If he was a conqueror, he doubtless cast his eyes on the fine country of Assyria.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10) | Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath given gifts to his lovers.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousWe find it shown in pictures made many thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt and Assyria.
The Wonder Book of Knowledge | VariousThe triumphs of the pencil or the chisel he left with contemptuous indifference to Egypt, or Assyria, or Greece.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume II | John Lord
Assur, it would seem, was a shrine long before Assyria went out of Babylon and builded Nineveh.
The Cradle of Mankind | W.A. Wigram
British Dictionary definitions for Assyria
/ (əˈsɪrɪə) /
an ancient kingdom of N Mesopotamia: it established an empire that stretched from Egypt to the Persian Gulf, reaching its greatest extent between 721 and 633 bc . Its chief cities were Assur and Nineveh
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