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 boundaries would be—roughly and generally speaking—the two rivers for East and West; while for the North and South boundaries we should draw parallel lines through Accad on the North and Babylon on the South.
From Creation and Its Records by Baden Henry Baden-Powell
To the people of Shumir and Accad, then, the universe was peopled with Spirits, whom they distributed according to its different spheres and regions.
From Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria by Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna) Ragozin
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 Theophilus Goldridge Pinches
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 A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
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