Ashur/‘Lamban’?/‘Liba(nai)’?

settlement · 2950 BC – 2100 AD

Aššur, modern Qal'at Sherqat, is an Assyrian city on the western bank of the Tigris River. Named after its enigmatic tutelary deity, it was the original capital, ancestral home, and burial place of the Assyrian royal family. From the late third millennium B.C. until 614 B.C., when the city was captured and destroyed by the Medes, Aššur was Assyria's most important religious center. It was also Assyria's principal administrative center until the beginning of the ninth century, when Ashurnasirpal II (883-859) moved the capital to the newly constructed Calah.

Ashur/‘Lamban’?/‘Liba(nai)’?
Coordinates
35.45557, 43.26130
Also known as
Al-Shirqat (ara), Ashur, Assur (de), Aŝuro (eo), Aşşur (az), Aš-širqāṭ (ara), Aššur (de), Aššur (akk), Aššúr (cs), Ašūr (ar), Baltil (akk), Kharā’ib al Ashūrīyīn (ara), Lamban, Liba, Libanai, Libbi-āli, Libbāli (akk), Qal‘at Širqāṭ (ar), á-su-ra (egy), Ασσούρ (el), Ашур (be), Ашшур (ba), آشور (ar), آشور (ar), الشرقاط (ara), خرائب الاشورين (ara), قاعة شرقط (ar), قلعة الشرقاط (ara), আশুর (bn), አሹር (am)
Dating
attested

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