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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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 BC, the empire included all of Mesopotamia and the Levant.
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- proper noun a Semitic
Akkadian kingdom, extant as a nation state from the mid–23rd century BC to 608 BC centred on the UpperTigris river, in northernMesopotamia (present day northern Iraq), that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history
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- noun an ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq
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For the special history of Babylonia and Assyria and their Empires, R.W. Rogers '_History of Babylonia and Assyria_, 2 vols., has been kept up to date and is the most convenient summary for an English reader.
The Ancient East 1894
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By degrees these limits were enlarged; and the term Assyria came to be used, in a loose and vague way, of a vast and ill-defined tract extending on all sides from this central region.
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However, "Assyria" is designedly used to point ultimately to the future restoration of the ten fully, never yet accomplished (Jer 3: 18).
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Nebo, a secondary deity in Assyria to Palestine and Phœnicia,
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The earliest libraries were collections of references, census and accounting for the use of kings in Assyria and Sumeria.
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Babylon, therefore Assyria is here put for Babylon its successor: so in
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De 28: 68, though threatening a return to Egypt, speaks (De 28: 36) of their being brought to a nation which neither they nor their fathers had known, showing that it is not the literal Egypt, but a second Egypt-like bondage that is threatened. eat unclean things in Assyria -- reduced by necessity to eat meats pronounced unclean by the Mosaic law (Eze 4: 13).
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"Asshur," or Assyria, is placed first in punishment, as being first in guilt.
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Aturia, which seems to be the word Assyria slightly corrupted, as we know that it habitually was by the Persians.
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The name Assyria came to be extended to the whole of Upper Mesopotamia, from the Euphrates to the Tagros mountains.
Ancient States and Empires John Lord 1852
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