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assyria
/əˈsɪɹiə/
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What does assyria mean?
proper noun
- (historical) An ancient Semitic Akkadian kingdom and at times an empire, extant from the mid-23rd century BCE to 608 BCE and centred on the Upper Tigris river in northern Mesopotamia (present day northern Iraq, but at its maximum extent including parts of modern Iran, Syria, Israel, Palestine and Egypt).
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/əˈsɪɹiə/
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We may now go on to countries about which we know a little more than of ancient China and Assyria.
And men of Assyria bare his body into Mesopotamia into the city of Edessa, and after, he was brought thither again.
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Thousands of years ago, far away in Assyria, the Assyrian people learned to make pictures and to carve them out in stone.
Most important of all, the recent discoveries in Assyria have thrown a new light upon the evolution of the dogma of "the fall of man."
The second contribution of Babylonia and Assyria to medicine--one that affected mankind profoundly--relates to the supposed influence of the heavenly bodies upon man's welfare.