Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth 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 B.C. the empire extended from the Mediterranean Sea across Arabia and Armenia.
Wiktionary
- n. a Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant as a nation state from the mid–23rd century BC to 608 BC centred on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia (present day northern Iraq), that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history
WordNet 3.0
- n. an ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq
Etymologies
- From Latin Assyria, from Ancient Greek Ἀσσυρία, from Akkadian 𒀸𒋗𒁺𐎹 (Aššūrāyu), from 𒀸𒋩 (Aššur, "Assur"), its original capital. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
“However, "Assyria" is designedly used to point ultimately to the future restoration of the ten fully, never yet accomplished (Jer 3: 18).”
“Nebo, a secondary deity in Assyria to Palestine and Phœnicia,”
“The earliest libraries were collections of references, census and accounting for the use of kings in Assyria and Sumeria.”
“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).”
“Asshur," or Assyria, is placed first in punishment, as being first in guilt.”
“Babylon, therefore Assyria is here put for Babylon its successor: so in”
“Aturia, which seems to be the word Assyria slightly corrupted, as we know that it habitually was by the Persians.”
“The name Assyria came to be extended to the whole of Upper Mesopotamia, from the Euphrates to the Tagros mountains.”
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