Assyria

[ uh-seer-ee-uh ]

noun

1. an ancient empire in SW Asia: greatest extent from about 750 to 612 b.c. : Nineveh.

Assyria

/ əˈsɪrɪə /

noun

1. an ancient kingdom of N Mesopotamia: it established an empire that stretched from Egypt to the Persian Gulf, reaching its greatest extent between 721 and 633 bc . Its chief cities were Assur and Nineveh

Example Sentences

If he was a conqueror, he doubtless cast his eyes on the fine country of Assyria.

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For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath given gifts to his lovers.

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We find it shown in pictures made many thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt and Assyria.

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The triumphs of the pencil or the chisel he left with contemptuous indifference to Egypt, or Assyria, or Greece.

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Assur, it would seem, was a shrine long before Assyria went out of Babylon and builded Nineveh.

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