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nounthe language of modern Iraq
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nounan extinct language of the Assyrians in ancient Mesopotamia
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nounan inhabitant of ancient Assyriatype of:
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- judith Jewish heroine in one of the books of the Apocrypha; she saved her people by decapitating the Assyrian general Holofernes
- ishtar Babylonian and Assyrian goddess of love and fertility and war; counterpart to the Phoenician Astarte
- ziggurat a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
- assyrian an extinct language of the Assyrians in ancient Mesopotamia
- holofernes (Apocrypha) the Assyrian general who was decapitated by the biblical heroine Judith
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- ashur chief god of the Assyrians; god of military prowess and empire; identified with Babylonian Anshar
- assyrian akkadian an extinct language of the Assyrians in ancient Mesopotamia
- zikurat a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians