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Title: The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Smith, William, 1813-1893, ed
Subjects: Geography, Ancient
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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eos baud una per ostia campos.—Tibvll. iv. 1, 140.—For the allusion to Cyrus see above, p. 32. . A.NC. OEOG. L 2j8 ASSYRIA. Booh II. and that this remained tlie capital until the time of Sennaclierib,B.C. 702, who again removed the seat of power to Xineveh. Inaddition to these jilaces,. there are numerous mounds whicli tm-donhtedly mark the sites of large towns, such as Abu Khameemand Tel Errnah, on the western hank of the Tigris, Khorscihad,>i)iereef-Jcl.aiK and others on the eastern side of it. These townswere m<jstly destroyed either before or at the time of the fall ofXineveh : when Xenophon passed by their sites, he observed themounds, but heard little of the famous cities that lay buried beneaththem ; even the name of Xineveh is imnoticed, and the j^lace is de-scribed as Mesplla, while that of Eesen appears under the Gr^ecisedform Larissa. Some few towns of a later date are foimd in thesouthern part of Assyria, of which Cteslphon is the only one thatattained celebrity.
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Vaulted Drain beneath the Palace at Ximroud, (From Layards Xineveh.^ The capital of Assyria was Ninus or Nineveii; it is described in thebook of Jouali as ••a city of three days journey (iii. 3\ and itspopulation (judging from the statement in iv. 11) must have amounted Chap. XII. NINEVEH. 219 to 600,000. Though it had disappeared before classical times, yetthe memory of its greatness was preserved. Both Strabo Txvi. p. 737Jand Diodorus (ii. p. 7) give striking accounts of its size. The moundsopposite Mosul, named Kouyunjik and Xehhi Yunv.s, represent the site ofNineveh, or, at all events, a portion of it. The doubtful point is, howfar Nineveh extended on either side. It has been noticed that the fourmounds^ Kouyunjik, Khorsahad, Karamless, and Ximroud, stand at the

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