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	JewishEncyclopedia.com - ASSYRIA: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The name "Assyria" is the Greek form of the native "Asshur," the city on the west of the Tigris, near its confluence with the Lower Zab, from which the kingdom, and finally the empire, of Assyria was named.
		Assyria's relations to the people of Israel are of chief concern in this article; yet a brief statement is necessary regarding its position among the nations of the ancient East, in whose history it is such an important factor.
		Assyria, however, was not in a position to subdue Syria completely till the middle of the ninth century; and then the conquest was not permanent.
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	Rise of Assyria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His son Ishme-Dagan succeeded him as King of Assyria, but the rest was lost to various rival kingdoms, and soon after the entire region formed part of the empire of Hammurabi.
		Assyria grew in power at the expense of Babylonia, and a time came when the Kassite king in Babylon was glad to marry the daughter of Assur-uballit I of Assyria, whose letters to Akhenaten of Egypt form part of the Amarna letters.
		The empire of Assyria was again extended in all directions, and the palaces, temples and other buildings raised by him bear witness to a considerable development of wealth and art.
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	Early history of Assyria
		In the north, Assyria was later bordered by the mountain state of Urartu; to the east and southeast its neighbour was the region around ancient Nuzi (near modern Kirkuk, "Arrapchitis" [Arrapkha] of the Greeks).
		Assyria as a whole, however, is not likely to have been a permanently secured part of the empire, since two date formulas of Shulgi and Amar-Su'ena mention the destruction of Urbilum.
		The reign of Ashur-dan III (772-755) was shadowed by rebellions and by epidemics of plague.
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	Assyria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Assyria, a country named after its original capital city, Asshur on the Tigris, was originally a colony of Babylonia, and was ruled by viceroys from that kingdom.
		It was a mountainous region lying to the north of Babylonia, extending along the Tigris as far as to the high mountain range of Armenia, the Gordiaean or Carduchian mountains.
		From an early period Assyria had entered on a conquering career, and having absorbed Babylon, the kingdoms of Hamath, Damascus, and Samaria, it conquered Phoenicia, and made Judea feudatory, and subjected Philistia and Idumea.
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	Encyclopedia: Assyria
		Assyria in earliest historical times referred to a region on the Upper Tigris river, named for its original capital, the city of Ashur.
		Assyria proper was located in a mountainous region, extending along the Tigris as far as the high Gordiaean or Carduchian mountain range of Armenia, sometimes called the "Mountains of Ashur".
		Shalmaneser III (Å ulmÄnu-aÅ¡arÄ“du, the god Shulmanu is pre-eminent) was king of Assyria (859 BC-824 BC), and son of the previous ruler, Ashurnasirpal II.
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	Assyria
		Assyria: Assyria's Rise - Assyria's Rise The nucleus of a Semitic state was forming by the beginning of the 3d millennium...
		Assyria: Assyria's Decline - Assyria's Decline Despite the magnificence of Assurbanipal's court, Assyria began a rapid decline...
		Assyria: The Ascendancy of Assyria - The Ascendancy of Assyria Assyrian greatness was to wait until the 9th cent., when Ashurnasirpal II...
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	Assyria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Assyria a country named after its original city Asshur on the Tigris was originally a colony of Babylonia and was ruled by viceroys from kingdom.
		In 1120 BC Tiglath-Pileser I the greatest of the Assyrian kings the Euphrates defeated the kings of the Hittites captured the city of Carchemish and advanced as far as the of the Mediterranean." He may be regarded the founder of the first Assyrian empire.
		Larsen's "The Conquest of Assyria" is a handsome volume about the re-discovery and archaeology of ancient Assyria and deciphering the cuneiform script against the backdrop of both Ottoman-held Iraq and the high Victorian society.The book centers on the th...
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	Zoroastrians and Judaism
		Assyria weakened itself economically by continuous wars to maintain its empire, including defending against invasions by an Indo-European tribal people, the Cimmerians, who came upon the Assyrians from the northeast.
		Assyria was burdened by the expense of maintaining its army.
		With the independence of Egypt and Babylon, and a weakened Assyria, the new king of Judah, Josiah - the grandson of Manasseh - declared Judah independent.
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	Rise of Assyria -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The rise of Assyria is the history of the first (An ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq) Assyrian empire until about 747 BC.
		However in 1107 BC, he sustained a temporary defeat at the hands of Marduk-nadin-ahhe of Babylonia, where the (An ancient language spoken by the Kassite people) Kassites had finally succumbed to Elamite attacks and a new line of kings was on the throne.
		Civil war and pestilence were devastating the country, and its northern provinces had been wrested from it by (The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded) Ararat.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/R/Ri/Rise_of_Assyria.htm (813 words)

	Rise of Assyria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The rise of Assyria is the history of the first Assyrian empireuntil about 747 BC.
		His fourth successor was Tiglath-pileser I, one of thegreat conquerors of Assyria, who carried his arms towards Armenia on the north andCappadocia on the west; he hunted wild bulls in the Lebanon and was presented with a crocodile by the Egyptian king.
		When he ascended the throne ofBabylon in 747 BC Assyria was in the throes of a revolution.
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	Assyria. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Ashur was Assyria’s chief god, but the gods of the Babylonians and Hittites were also honored.
		B.C. saw Assyria threatening the surrounding states, and under Tiglathpileser I Assyrian soldiers entered the kingdom centered about Urartu (Ararat; see Armenia), took Babylonia, and crossed N Syria to reach the Mediterranean.
		B.C. Under the son of Nabopolassar, Nebuchadnezzar, Babylonia was renewed in power, and the great-grandson of Cyaxares, Cyrus the Great, was to establish the Persian Empire, which owed much to the earlier Assyrian state.
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	Assyria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Assyria was located in a mountainous region lying to the north of Babylonia, extending along the Tigris as far as to the high mountain range of Armenia, the Gordiaean or Carduchian mountains.
		Of the early history of the kingdom of Assyria little is positively known.
		In the 15th century, Saushtatar, king of Hanilgalbat sacked Assur and made Assyria a vassal.
	www.yotor.com /wiki/en/as/Assyria.htm (755 words)

	The history of ancient Assyria
		ASSYRIA, a daughter land born of Babylon, thrust aside the mother city and for a brief time held control of the Euphrates valley.
		The rise of Assyria to power was a natural consequence of the weakness of Babylon under her foreign Kassite kings.
		Assyria occupied originally the hill country along the middle course of the Tigris River, and gradually spread its power throughout the upper Euphrates valley, and thence southward over the whole of ancient Sumer and Akkad.
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	Assyria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Assyria in earliest historical times referred to a region on the Upper Tigris river, named for its original capital, the city of Asshur (or Ashshur).
		Assyria proper was located in a mountainous region, extending along the Tigris as far as the high Gordiaean or Carduchian mountain range of Armenia, sometimes called the "Mountains of Asshur".
		In the 15th century, Saushtatar, king of "Hanilgalbat" (Hurrians of Mitanni), sacked Ashshur and made Assyria a vassal.
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	The rise of Assyria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar (Nabu-kudurri-sur; ca1126-ca1105) had to fend off Elamite raids and was at war with Tiglath-pileser of Assyria (ca1115-ca1077), who conquered northern Babylonia, although the end result of these wars seems to have been the mutual exhaustion of the two states.
		It was in this fragmented and unstable situation in the Near East that Assyria rose again under Ashur-dan II (ca932-ca912), who appears to have put an end to Aramaean raids from Syria and to have contained Elam in the east.
		Assyria resurfaced as an imperialistic state under with king Tiglath-Pileser III (744-727), who apparently displaced Urartian influence in Cilicia.
	www.worldhistoryplus.com /a/assyria1.htm (635 words)

	Assyrian Dominance (745 BC - 640 BC)- Old Testament History
		Soon, Assyria ruthlessly began building an empire, extending control over Babylon and the Medes to the East, defeating the Kingdom of Urartu to the North, and extending control to the West into Eastern Asia Minor, Phoenicia (Tyre), Syria (Damascus), and into northern Israelite territory.
		At the very time that Tiglath-Pileser III was coming to power in Assyria, marking the rebirth of the Assyrian Empire and the greatest external threat the Israelites had faced since the beginning of the Kingdom, Israel was self-destructing.
		Assyria needed little excuse to take action, and the events that unfolded led to the destruction of the Northern Kingdom by the Assyrians in 721 BC.
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	The Origins of Assyria and Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Assyria lay north of Babylon along the upper Tigris and the waters of the Great and Little Zab rivers; its modern boundaries would be Iran in the east, Turkey in the north, and Syria in the west.
		New invasions of the Near East by the Cimmerians and Scythians and the rise of nationalism in Media and Babylonia saddened the last years of Ashurbanipal and sapped the military and financial reserves of Assyria.
		Assyria, which existed from the 14th century B.C. to 612 B.C., was situated on the upper Tigris River.
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	Assyria Part Three (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kassite Conquest Of Babylonia And The Appearance Of Assyria.
		Assyria as a possible rival of Kassite Babylonia; third, the culmination of
		Assyria, therefore, is reasonably explained as connected with the greater
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	Rise of Assyria
		His fourth successor was Tiglath-pileser I[?], one of the great conquerors of Assyria, who carried his arms towards Armenia on the north and Cappadocia on the west; he hunted wild bulls in the Lebanon and was presented with a crocodile by the Egyptian king.
		Of the immediate successors of Tiglath-pileser I we know little, and it is with Assur-nazir-pal III[?] (883-858 BC) that our knowledge of Assyrian history begins once more to be fairly full.
		The empire of Assyria was again extended in all directions, and the palaces, temples and pal 'ii.
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	Inscription of Tiglath Pileser I
		I added territories to Assyria, and I added populations to her population.
		Ashur-dapur-Il, King of Assyria, son of Barzan-pala-kura, King of Assyria, took down this temple and did not rebuild it.
		The mound of earth (on which it was built) I enlarged like the firmament of the rising stars, and I beautified the entire building.
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	Assyria -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Assyria was a dependency of Babylonia and later of the Mitanni kingdom during most of the 2nd millennium
		Strictly speaking, the use of the name “Assyria” for the period before the latter half of the 2nd millennium BC is anachronistic; Assyria—as against the city-state of Ashur—did not become an independent state until about 1400 BC.
		Several times forced to fight against Babylonia, the latter was even able to defend himself against an attack by Nebuchadrezzar I. According to the inscriptions, most of his building efforts were in...
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	Search Results for Assyria - Encyclopædia Britannica
		Strictly speaking, the use of the name “Assyria” for the period before the latter half of the 2nd millennium BC is anachronistic; Assyria—as against the city-state of Ashur—did not become an...
		His father's equal in both brutality and energy, he was less realistic in his undertakings.
		Assyria and Babylonia at the end of the 2nd millennium
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	Assyria, History of Assyria from Rise to Fall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Assyria, Assyrian, Assyrians, History of the Assyrians, Nineveh and Assyria, Ancient Assyria.
		The discoverers of the long-buried memorials of Assyria and
		Not belonging to the epistolary literature of Assyria and
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	Crosswalk.com
		Pul king of Assyria came against the land; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to strengthen the kingdom under his control.
		So the king of Assyria heeded him; for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus and took it, carried its people captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.
		Now King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the design of the altar and its pattern, according to all its workmanship.
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	Rise of Assyria - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
		Rise of Assyria - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
		His fourth successor was Tiglath-pileser_I, one of the great conquerors of Assyria, who carried his arms towards Armenia on the north and Cappadocia on the west; he hunted wild bulls in the Lebanon and was presented with a crocodile by the Egyptian king.
		In 1107_BC, however, he sustained a temporary defeat at the hands of Merodach-f'iadin-akhi (Marduknadin-akhë)' of Babylonia, where the Kassite_dynasty had finally succumbed to Elamite attacks and a new line of kings was on the throne.
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	The rise of Assyria (from Mesopotamia, history of) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Mesopotamia to the end of the Achaemenian period > The Kassites, the Mitanni, and the rise of Assyria > The rise of Assyria
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		The best-known novel by U.S. realist author William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham centers on the moral dilemma of Colonel Silas Lapham, a newly rich, self-made businessman who has climbed over his former partner on the ladder to success.
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	BlackDouglas -- Rise of Assyria
		The Rise of Assyria campaign is for people who want a challenge from single-player games of
		Assyria's neighbors, however, were less than pleased with the situation.
		After defeating the Mitanni and coming to terms with the Hittites, Adad-nirari turned his attention to the east, where mountain tribes continued to harass the Assyrian frontier.
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	Sermon Notes
		Rise of Assyria under Tiglath Pileser III: 727 BC
		Conflicts with Assyria began for Israel in 727 BC Shalmaneser, conquers Samaria in 722 BC.
		I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries.
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