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  • At this time, the Assyrian king Sargon II had recently conquered Samana-northern Israel-forcing a migration of Hebrews southward into Jerusalem.†  (source)
  • In 722 B.C. the Northern kingdom was conquered by the Assyrians and it lost all political and religious significance.†  (source)
    Assyrians = inhabitants of Assyria -- an ancient kingdom centered in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq
  • Arwad had been a strategic military possession for an endless succession of sea powers: the Phoenicians, the Assyrians, the Achaemenid Persians, the Greeks under Alexander, the Romans, the Crusaders, the Mongols, the Turks, the French, and the British.†  (source)
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  • My Great Uncle Algie got it for me in Assyria.†  (source)
    Assyria = an ancient kingdom centered in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq
  • They hated him because he was Assyrian.†  (source)
    Assyrian = an inhabitant of Assyria -- an ancient kingdom centered in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq; or their language
  • Besieged, plundered, captured and recaptured, Jerusalem had been ruled by Jebusites, Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and, of course, the Jews.†  (source)
    Assyrians = inhabitants of Assyria -- an ancient kingdom centered in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq
  • Assyria.†  (source)
    Assyria = an ancient kingdom centered in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq
  • I had to borrow these from an Assyrian tomb.†  (source)
    Assyrian = an inhabitant of Assyria -- an ancient kingdom centered in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq; or their language
  • The Assyrians used it in the seventh century B.C. to poison water supplies.†  (source)
    Assyrians = inhabitants of Assyria -- an ancient kingdom centered in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq
  • The learned societies and great men of Assyria—where are they?†  (source)
    Assyria = an ancient kingdom centered in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq
  • He drove with authority and grace, head back, jaw thrown forward: an Assyrian king.†  (source)
    Assyrian = an inhabitant of Assyria -- an ancient kingdom centered in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq; or their language
  • Breathing that sea breeze, so much more invigorating and balsamic as the land is approached, contemplating all the power of those preparations she was commissioned to destroy, all the power of that army which she was to combat alone—she, a woman with a few bags of gold—Milady compared herself mentally to Judith, the terrible Jewess, when she penetrated the camp of the Assyrians and beheld the enormous mass of chariots, horses, men, and arms, which a gesture of her hand was to dissipate like a cloud of smoke.†  (source)
    Assyrians = inhabitants of Assyria -- an ancient kingdom centered in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq
  • FIGURE 62: Chaos Monster and Sun God (carved alabaster, Assyria, 885-860 B.C.).†  (source)
    Assyria = an ancient kingdom centered in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq
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