An ancient Assyrian city.

(modern Kuyunjik at Nebi Yunus) capital of the late Assyrian kings, in the late eighth and seventh centuries Before Common Era. Cult centre of Ishtar.

the last capital of the ancient Assyrian Empire, situated on the east bank of the River Tigris. In 612 BC it was captured and destroyed and was not discovered by archaeologists until the 1800s.

The capital city of the Assyrian empire, located on the Tigris river. See Chapter 13 Nahum, Chapter 13 Jonah.

Nineveh (Akkadian: Ninua; Syriac: ܢܝܢܘܐ, Ninua) was an important city in ancient Assyria. This "exceeding great city", as it is called in the Book of Jonah, lay on the eastern bank of the Tigris in modern-day Mosul, Iraq. Ancient Nineveh's mound-ruins are located on a level part of the plain near the river within an 1800-acre (730 ha) area circumscribed by a seven and one-half mile (12 km) brick-rampart.