Assyria (kingdom)
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Creators: M. Roaf
Creators: M. Roaf
Contributors:
Gabriel Mckee, Sean Gillies, M. Joann McDaniel, Jeffrey Becker, Jamie Novotny, Tom Elliott, Brian Z. Lund, R. Talbert, Mary E. Downs
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Dec 04, 2020 02:43 PM
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History
Aššur, later Māt Aššur ('the land of the god Aššur'), grew from a small city-state and important trading center to a powerful, wide-spread empire. At is zenith in the seventh century BC, the Assyrian Empire (883-609 BC) dominated much of the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean, stretching from the Persian Gulf in the south to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. Assyria's heartland, an area also referred to as Subartu, roughly corresponds to northern Iraq (Nineveh Governorate) and includes the numerous important cities, especially Aššur (Assyria's traditional religious and administrative capital), Kalhu, Dur-Šarrukin, and Nineveh (the capital of the Assyrian Empire).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/29492
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- Ashur/‘Lamban’?/‘Liba(nai)’? part of (administrative) Assyria (kingdom) (2335 BC - 720 BC)
- Dur-Sharrukin part of (administrative) Assyria (kingdom) (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Egalgabarinutukua part of (administrative) Assyria (kingdom) (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Nimrud part of (administrative) Assyria (kingdom) (1000 BC - 720 BC)
- Nineveh/Ninos part of (administrative) Assyria (kingdom) (720 BC - 540 BC)
region
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 3 C2 (As)Syria
After the fall of the Assyrian Empire in 609 BC, the region fell under the control of a succession of other powers, generally remaining as a coherent administrative region. This persisted until the seventh century AD when the Rashidun Caliphate incorporated the former Sasanian province of Asōristān within the larger province of al-Jazira.
M. Roaf, Gabriel Mckee, Sean Gillies, M. Joann McDaniel, Jeffrey Becker, Jamie Novotny, Tom Elliott, Brian Z. Lund, R. Talbert, and Mary E. Downs, 'Assyria (kingdom): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/29492> [accessed: 22 January 2025]
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