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
Scriptures do not state that Nimrod was the first monarch, but "the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh."
From A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by MacLean, J. P. (John Patterson)
The conquest of Suri was the work of the last campaign of Sargon of Accad, and laid all northern Mesopotamia at his feet.
From Patriarchal Palestine by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
I have caused to be dug the Nahr-Hammurabi, a benediction for the people of Shumir and Accad.
From Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria by Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna)
As to the city of Agadê, it is no other than the city of Accad mentioned in Genesis x.,
From Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria by Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna)
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