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The king of Assyria (Akkadian: Iššiʾak Aššur, later šar māt Aššur) was the ruler of the ancient Mesopotamian kingdom of Assyria, which was founded in the late 21st century BC and fell in the late 7th century BC.
Assyrian King List: list of rulers of ancient Assyria, used as a framework for the study of Mesopotamian chronology. Incomplete lists of Assyrian kings have been discovered in each of Assyria's three capitals: Aššur , Dur-Šarukkin , and Nineveh .
Ashurbanipal[a] (Neo-Assyrian Akkadian: 𒀸𒋩𒆕𒀀, romanized: Aššur-bāni-apli, [10][b] meaning " Ashur is the creator of the heir") [3][12] was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 669 BC to his death in 631.
The first attested use of the term māt Aššur is during the reign of Ashur-uballit I (c. 1363–1328 BC), who was the first king of the Middle Assyrian Empire. [ 14 ] . Both ālu Aššur and māt Aššur derive from the name of the Assyrian national deity Ashur. [ 15 ] .
19 cze 2018 · Ashurbanipal was king of the Neo-Assyrian empire. At the time of his reign (669–c. 631 BC) it was the largest empire in the world, stretching from Cyprus in the west to Iran in the east, and at one point it even included Egypt. Its capital Nineveh (in modern-day Iraq) was the world's largest city.
30 kwi 2024 · Ashurbanipal: king of Assyria, king of the World explores the world of ancient Assyria through the life and legacy of its last great ruler, King Ashurbanipal. In 669 BC, Ashurbanipal became the most powerful person on the planet.
Ashurbanipal (flourished 7th century bce) was the last of the great kings of Assyria (reigned 668 to 627 bce), who assembled in Nineveh the first systematically organized library in Mesopotamia and the ancient Middle East.
