Assyria (disambiguation)
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Assyria may refer to:
  • Assyria
    Assyria
    Assyria was a Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant as a nation state from the mid–23rd century BC to 608 BC centred on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia , that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history. It was named for its original capital, the ancient city of Assur...

    , an ancient empire in Mesopotamia
  • Either of two provinces of the Persian Empire:
    • Achaemenid Assyria
      Achaemenid Assyria
      Athura was a geographical area within the Persian Achaemenid Empire during the period of 539 BC to 330 BC. Although sometimes regarded as a satrapy, Achaemenid royal inscriptions list it as a dahyu, a concept generally interpreted as meaning either a group of people or both a country and its...

    • Asuristan
      Asuristan
      Asuristan was the province of Assyria under the Sassanid Empire . It corresponds to the Babylonia province under the Parthian Empire.The province for the most part stretched from Mosul to Adiabene....

       (Sassanid)
  • Assyria (Roman province)
    Assyria (Roman province)
    Assyria or Assyria Provincia was a roman province that lasted only two years .-History:Assyria was one of three provinces created by the Roman emperor Trajan in 116 AD following a successful military campaign against Parthia, in present-day Iraq.Despite Rome's military victory, Trajan's province...

    , province of the Roman Empire
  • Asuristan
    Asuristan
    Asuristan was the province of Assyria under the Sassanid Empire . It corresponds to the Babylonia province under the Parthian Empire.The province for the most part stretched from Mosul to Adiabene....

    , the Sassanid province
  • Assyrian homeland
    Assyrian homeland
    Assyrian homeland refers to a geographic and cultural region inhabited traditionally by the Assyrian people; who call it Assyria . It is largely coterminous with the Kurdish homeland, including parts of what is now northeast Syria, northern Iraq, northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey.The area...

    , the current geographical location of today's modern Assyrians
    • A modern term referring to the establishment of a state for the Assyrian people, see Assyrian independence
      Assyrian independence
      The Assyrian independence is a political movement and ideology that supports the creation of an Assyrian state or an autonomy for the Syriac-speaking Christian Assyrian people in northern Iraq....

  • Assyria Township, Michigan
    Assyria Township, Michigan
    Assyria Township is a civil township of Barry County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the township population was 1,912.The unincorporated community of Assyria Center is located on M-66 at the corner of Tasker Rd.-Geography:...


See also

  • Assyrian (disambiguation)
  • Syria (disambiguation)
    Syria (disambiguation)
    Syria is a country in the Middle East.Syria may also refer to:* Siria, a music duo* Syria , sailing ship launched in 1868In places:* Greater Syria, a historical region of the Levant** Arab Kingdom of Syria...

  • Ashur (disambiguation)
    Ashur (disambiguation)
    Ashur or Assur or Asur may refer to*Assyria:** the city of Assur, the first capital of Assyria** Ashur, the main god of Assyrian mythology ** Ashur a common given name among Assyrian people...

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