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Assyria
c. 2025–609 BCE
Assyria was the great military power of the ancient Near East, centered on the upper Tigris. Its Neo Assyrian Empire of the ninth to seventh centuries BCE ruled from Egypt to Iran. It fell to a coalition of Babylonians and Medes in 609 BCE.
Facts
- Founded
- c. 2025 BCE, as a city state at Assur; the empire peaked 911–609 BCE.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Assyria
- Ended
- 609 BCE, Nineveh destroyed by Babylonians and Medes.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Assyria
- Heartland
- Northern Mesopotamia, capitals Assur, Nineveh, and Nimrud.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Assyria
- Major rulers
- Ashurnasirpal II; Tiglath Pileser III, who rebuilt the empire; Ashurbanipal, the scholar king with the great library.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Assyria
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