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Assur
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Assur meaning
Alternative form of Ashur.
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Example sentences (4)
It was named for its original capital, the ancient city of Assur ( Akkadian Aššūrāyu ).
Nabopolassar attempted a counterattack, marched his army into Assyria proper in 616 BC, and tried to besiege Assur and Arrapha ( Kirkuk ), but was defeated by Sin-shar-ishkun and chased back into Babylonia.
Parpola holds that a series of events came following 694 BCE when Sennacherib's oldest son and heir-designate Assur-nãdin-sumi was captured by Babylonians and was removed to Elam (whereupon he disappears from the historical record).
The documents record common activities such as trade between the Assyrian colony and the city state of Assur and between Assyrian merchants and local people.