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 results of the excavations by the American Expedition, published by Prof. Hilprecht, of the U. of Pa., show that in the time of King Sargon of Accad, art and literature flourished in Chaldea.
From The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments by Williams, William A. (William Asbury)
Babylon is already mentioned as one of his seats of power; his capital, however, was at Agade or Accad, where on one occasion he was unsuccessfully besieged by his revolted subjects.
From A Primer of Assyriology by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
See Apsū, Apason Accad, a city of Nimrod's kingdom, 118.
From The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia by Pinches, Theophilus Goldridge
Babylonia, a part of Lower Mesopotamia, 7; excessive flatness of, 9; later name for "Shumir and Accad" and for "Chaldea," 237.
From Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria by Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna)
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