WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Nineveh, the oldest and most-populous city of the ancient Assyrian empire, situated on the east bank of the Tigris River and encircled by the modern city of Mosul, Iraq.

Detailed explanation-2: -705-681 BCE), among the most famous Assyrian kings, and closely associated with the city as he made it the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Modern scholars also believe that he may have built the Hanging Gardens at Nineveh that were later credited to Babylon.

Detailed explanation-3: -Nineveh was on the east bank of the Tigris in ancient Assyria, across the river from the modern city of Mosul, Iraq. Settlement at Nineveh first occurred by about 6000 BC, and by 2000 BC the city was a center of worship of the fertility goddess Ishtar.

Detailed explanation-4: -First mentioned in ancient texts around 1800 B.C.E., Nineveh became an important trade and religious center and was Assyria’s capital city from the ninth through the seventh centuries B.C.E. It was destroyed when the Assyrian Empire collapsed c. 612 B.C.E.