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
In his inscription, king Hammurabi says "that El and Bel have given over to his rule the inhabitants of Sumir and Accad."
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max
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
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)
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)
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