Nineveh (irq)

Nineveh

Nineveh ranks 10,841st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Norfolk Island, National Geographic Society, and New Mexico. Memorable people born in Nineveh include Ashurbanipal. Memorable people who died in Nineveh include Jonah, Sennacherib, and Ashurbanipal. Nineveh has been the birth place of many politicians and the death place of many politicians, and religious figures. Nineveh is located in Iraq.

Nineveh, also known in early modern times as Kouyunjik, was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located in the modern-day city of Mosul in northern Iraq. It is located on the eastern bank of the Tigris River and was the capital and largest city of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, as well as the largest city in the world for several decades. Today, it is a common name for the half of Mosul that lies on the eastern bank of the Tigris, and the country's Nineveh Governorate takes its name from it. Read more on Wikipedia