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Assyria

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assyriannoun	A person from a traditional Christian ethnic group with roots in the Middle East, who claim ancestry tracing back to the ancient Assyrians.
assyr.noun	Abbreviation of Assyrian. [(historical) Of or pertaining to the ancient region on the Upper Tigris river, with capital city of Assur.]
akkadian empirenoun	(historical) The first ancient empire of Mesopotamia after the long-lived civilization of Sumer.
assyriologistnoun	A person who studies ancient Assyria.
assyro-babyloniannoun	Of or relating to Assyro-Babylonia; Mesopotamian.
akkadnoun	One of the ancient kingdoms of Mesopotamia, located in northern Babylonia.
subartunoun	A region of upper Mesopotamia in the Bronze Age, which later came to be called Assyria.
sargonidnoun	A member of the ancient civilisation ruled by Sargon of Akkad.
accadiannoun	Alternative spelling of Akkadian. [The now extinct Semitic language of ancient Mesopotamia, formerly used as an international language of diplomacy.]
agadenoun	Obsolete spelling of Akkad. [One of the ancient kingdoms of Mesopotamia, located in northern Babylonia.]
mesopotamianoun	(historical) A geographic region in southwest Asia, spanning from the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, located in modern Iraq, eastern Syria, and southeast Turkey; the site of one of the most ancient civilizations in the history of man.
sargonnoun	An Akkadian emperor famous for his conquest of the Sumerian city-states in the 24th and 23rd centuries BCE.
mitanninoun	(historical) Hurrian kingdom in northern Mesopotamia from circa 1500 B.C.E., at the height of its power, during the 14th century BC, encompassing what is today southeastern Turkey, northern Syria and northern Iraq.
sumernoun	A historical region occupied by the earliest known ancient civilization of the ancient Near East (4th to 3rd millennia BC), located in lower Mesopotamia in modern southern Iraq.
accadnoun	Alternative spelling of Akkad. [One of the ancient kingdoms of Mesopotamia, located in northern Babylonia.]
akkadianoun	(uncommon; often in fantasy) Akkad, the kingdom of the Akkadians.
adiabenenoun	(historical) An ancient kingdom in Assyria, with its capital at Arbela.
aramaeannoun	Alternative spelling of Aramean [Any member of a West Semitic semi-nomadic and pastoralist people who lived in the Levant and later also in upper Mesopotamia during the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age. Their homeland is referred to in the Hebrew Bible as Aram. They spoke Aramaic.]
uruk periodnoun	(historical) A period between circa 4000 to 3100 BC which saw the emergence of urban life in Mesopotamia and the Sumerian civilization.
amoritenoun	A member of an ancient Semitic people who lived to the west of the Euphrates.