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nounan ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraqpart of:
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- israel an ancient kingdom of the Hebrew tribes at the southeastern end of the Mediterranean Sea; founded by Saul around 1025 BC and destroyed by the Assyrians in 721 BC
- 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
- assyrian an inhabitant of ancient Assyria
- holofernes (Apocrypha) the Assyrian general who was decapitated by the biblical heroine Judith
- nineveh an ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris across from the modern city of Mosul in the northern part of what is now known as Iraq
- anshar the Babylonian father of the gods; identified with Assyrian Ashur; in Sumerian the name signifies `the totality of the upper world'
- assyriology archeology of the ancient Assyrians