A city of the ancient world that served as the capital of the
Assyrian Empire. It prospered and fared rather well when
Assyria experienced a boom of power in the seventh century B.C.E., but it was destroyed by the
Babylonians in 612 B.C.E.
It figures into several stories from the
Bible, among the most famed being that of
Jonah and the one about
The Destruction of Sennacherib.