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Fertile Crescent
Sites associated with ancient Mesopotamian history
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Major Events

Nineveh: Nergal Gate
Battle of Nineveh

Related Places

Turkey
Turkey
flag of Iraq
Iraq
Babylonia and Assyria
Nineveh
ancient city, Iraq
Neo-Babylonian (Chaldean) empire, c. 6th century bce
Chaldea
ancient state, Middle East
ancient Middle East
ancient Middle East
historical region, Asia
Cilicia
Cilicia
ancient district, Anatolia
Nimrūd, Iraq: ruins
Calah
ancient city, Iraq
Ashur, Iraq, designated a World Heritage site in 2003.
Ashur
ancient city, Iraq
Carchemish
Carchemish
ancient city, Turkey
Dur Sharrukin, Iraq
Dur Sharrukin
ancient city, Iraq
Ḥalaf, Tall
Tall Ḥalaf
archaeological site, Syria
Bit-Adini
ancient kingdom, Middle East
Arpad
ancient city, Syria
Sites associated with ancient Mesopotamian history
history of Mesopotamia
historical region, Asia
Citium
Citium
ancient city, Cyrpus

Key People

Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal
Ashurbanipal
king of Assyria
Bas-relief depicting the founding Assyrian king of Nineveh, Sennacherib
Sennacherib
king of Assyria
Tiglath-pileser III
king of Assyria
Sargon II
Sargon II
king of Assyria
Ashurnasirpal II
Ashurnasirpal II
king of Assyria
Esarhaddon, detail of a tablet from Zincirli Hüyük, in Turkey; in the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin
Esarhaddon
king of Assyria
Shalmaneser III
king of Assyria
Tiglath-pileser I
king of Assyria
Ashur-uballit I
king of Assyria
Shalmaneser I
king of Assyria
Shalmaneser V
king of Assyria and Babylon
Sargon I
king of Assyria
Tukulti-Ninurta I
king of Assyria
Ashurnasirpal I
king of Assyria
Tiglath-pileser II
king of Assyria