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Place Nineveh/Ninos — by M. Roaf — last modified Jun 15, 2023 08:50 AM
This important Mesopotamian city flanks the eastern edge of the Tigris flood plain, opposite modern Mosul, of which it is now a suburb. From the third millennium B.C. onwards, Nineveh was the most important religious center of the goddess Ištar in the area that would become the Assyrian heartland. Starting in the Middle Assyrian period, the city came under the authority of the kings of Assyria, who often sponsored large-scale building activities there. However, it was not until 704 B.C. that Nineveh became the administrative capital of Assyria, when the Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib moved the royal family and court there and transformed the city into a thriving imperial metropolis. Nineveh remained Assyria’s capital until 612 B.C., when it was captured and destroyed by a Babylonian-Median collation led by Nabopolassar and Cyaxares. The visible remains of the (7th-century) Assyrian city include the citadel mound Kuyunjik, the smaller mound of Nebi Yunus, and the twelve-kilometer-long city wall.
Place Ninfa — by Jeffrey Becker — last modified Dec 17, 2021 12:03 PM
Ninfa is now a garden landscape covering more than 100 hectares in the territory of Cisterna di Latina. In archaeological terms, this landscape includes many remains stretching from protohistory to the Middle Ages.
Place Ninia — by P. Kos — last modified Oct 23, 2012 01:48 PM
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 20 D5 Ninia
Place Ninica/Col. Iulia Augusta Felix/Claudiopolis — by S. Mitchell — last modified Oct 07, 2017 09:20 PM
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 66 C3 Ninica/Col. Iulia Augusta Felix/Claudiopolis
Place Nino — by R. Müller Wollermann — last modified Oct 20, 2012 04:26 PM
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 75 D2 Nino
Place Niphanda — by M.U. Erdosy — last modified Jan 23, 2024 10:04 PM
An ancient settlement, attested by literary or documentary sources, whose precise location cannot be determined today
Place Nippur Survey — by B. Siewert-Mayer — last modified Jan 11, 2014 11:33 AM
A place from the TAVO Index
Place Nippur/Nufar/‘Hippareni’ — by A. Hausleiter — last modified Jan 25, 2024 02:03 PM
An ancient Sumerian settlement whose ruins lie at Nuffar in modern Iraq. Under various names it persisted as a settlement throughout the periods of Greek and Roman engagement in Babylonia.
Place Nirabu — by Claudia Horst — last modified Jun 14, 2023 01:35 PM
A town mentioned in Neo-Assyrian sources. Nīrabu is equated with Aramaic nrb, classical Nērabos, and modern Nayrab.
Place Niriz/Narezzash? — by M. Roaf — last modified Oct 20, 2012 03:17 PM
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 3 F4 Niriz/Narezzash?
Place Nisa — by C. Foss — last modified Oct 23, 2012 01:25 PM
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 65 C5 Nisa
Place Nisa(ia)/Parthaunisa/Mithradatkert/Shahr-ram-Peroz — by M. Roaf — last modified Sep 18, 2024 10:14 AM
An ancient Parthian fortress containing two settlement mounds, the tells of Old and New Nisa.
Place Nisaia — by G. Reger — last modified Apr 15, 2024 04:26 PM
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 58 E2 Nisaia
Place Nisibis — by M.U. Erdosy — last modified Aug 20, 2012 02:02 PM
An ancient settlement, attested by literary or documentary sources, whose precise location cannot be determined today
Place Nisibis/Antiochia — by M. Roaf — last modified Jul 15, 2024 04:35 PM
Nisibis/Antiochia was an ancient city of Mesopotamia that began as part of an Aramaean kingdom that the Assyrian king Adad-Nirari II captured in 896 BC. Following its capture by Alexander the Great, the city became Antiochia Mygdonia under the Seleucids.
Place Nisibyn/Ad Zociandem? — by T. Sinclair — last modified Jan 31, 2016 09:43 PM
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 67 F2 Nisibyn/Ad Zociandem?
Place Nisus/Cesum — by P.-L. Gatier — last modified Oct 20, 2012 05:20 PM
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 67 F1 Nisus/Cesum
Place Nisyros (settlement) — by C. Foss — last modified Mar 21, 2023 11:23 AM
The eponymous settlement of the volcanic island of Nisyros in the Aegean Sea.
Place Nitriai — by A. Bernand — last modified Jun 28, 2023 10:48 PM
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 74 C3 Nitriai
Place Nitriansky Hrádok — by L.F. Pitts — last modified Jun 28, 2023 10:46 PM
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 13 D4 Nitriansky Hrádok

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