Asshur
Americannoun
noun
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In “The War of the Children of Light,” we hear of the “Kittim of Asshur,” evidently the Syrians, the Seleucids, and the “Kittim of Egypt,” evidently the followers of the Ptolemies.
From The New Yorker
The Kittim of Asshur and the Kittim of Egypt would be Syrians and Egyptians allied with the Romans.
From The New Yorker
It consists of an old Assyrian ruin, said to be the remains of the ancient city of Asshur.
From Project Gutenberg
The wife of Bel Nimrod; the wife of Asshur; the wife of Nin.
From Project Gutenberg
Whether Simmas, her foster-father, has arisen out of Samas, the sun-god of the Semites, and Onnes, the first husband of Semiramis, out of Anu, the god of Babel and Asshur, cannot indeed be decided.
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