Accad
Britishnoun
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A classmate, 16-year-old Kiara Accad, said she had come to the United States from the Philippines believing that Columbus had discovered an uninhabited land.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2017
The cities of Accad with their temples soon rival those of Shumir and strive to eclipse them, and their patesis labor to predominate politically over those of the South.
From Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria by Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna) Ragozin
Accad, Northern or Upper Chaldea, 145; meaning of the word, ib.; headquarters of Semitism, 204-205.
From Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria by Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna) Ragozin
Indeed it is possible that the city of Agade or Accad, from which the district of Accad seems to have derived its name, was of Semitic foundation.
From A Primer of Assyriology by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
Such is a broad and cursory outline of the theory according to which Cushite immigrations preceded the arrival of the Semites in the land of Shumir and Accad.
From Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria by Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna) Ragozin
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