Assyria

American  

[uh-seer-ee-uh] / əˈsɪər i ə /

noun

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

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Assyria British  

/ 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

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Example Sentences

Beginning in the last decades of the seventh century BCE, two growing powers threatened and eventually overthrew Assyria.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

The Median Empire, a kingdom in northwestern Iran, had only recently unified and strengthened, largely because Assyria had devastated the rival kingdoms around it, such as Elam.

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Although the attack failed, it encouraged the Median dynasty to risk its own attack into Assyria.

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It was only around 900 BCE that Assyria was able to reestablish control over northern Mesopotamia.

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Whereas the buildings of Sumer and Assyria were covered with brilliant mosaics and splendid pictorial murals, the Inka style was severe, abstract, stripped down to geometric forms—startlingly contemporary, in fact.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann