Nineveh
Nineveh was an ancient Near Eastern 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, and potentially the wealthiest city in the ancient world.
- Archaeological site
- …lies at an elevation of 221 metres (725 feet)
- Description: ancient Assyrian city, capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
- Also known as“Mint of Nineveh”“Nīnawá”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Great Mosque of al-Nuri and Bash Tapia Castle.
Great Mosque of al-Nuri
Ruins
Bash Tapia Castle
Ruins
Our Lady of the Hour Church
Place of worship
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mosul.
Nineveh
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Latitude
36.35709° or 36° 21′ 26″ north
Longitude
43.1598° or 43° 9′ 35″ east
Open location code
8H859545+RW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Nineveh” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Nineve”
- Afrikaans: “Ninevé”
- Akkadian: “𒌷𒉌𒉡𒀀”
- Amharic: “ነነዌ”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Νινευή”
- Ancient Hebrew: “נִינְוֵה”
- Arabic: “مدينة نينوى”
- Arabic: “نينوى (مدينة)”
- Arabic: “نينوى (مدينه)”
- Arabic: “نينوى”
- Arabic: “نِينَوَىٰ”
- Armenian: “Նինվե”
- Asturian: “Nínive”
- Azerbaijani: “Nineviya”
- Bashkir: “Ниневия”
- Basque: “Ninive”
- Belarusian: “Ніневія”
- Belarusian: “Нінэвія”
- Bengali: “নিনেভেহ”
- Bosnian: “Niniva”
- Breton: “Ninive”
- Bulgarian: “Ниневия”
- Burmese: “နင်နီဗေး”
- Catalan: “Nínive”
- Cebuano: “Ninive”
- Central Kurdish: “نەینەوا”
- Chinese: “尼尼微”
- Chuvash: “Ниневи”
- Classical Syriac: “ܢܝܼܢܘܹܐ”
- Croatian: “Niniva”
- Czech: “Ninive”
- Danish: “Nineve”
- Danish: “Ninive”
- Dutch: “Nineveh”
- Dutch: “Ninive”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نينوى”
- Esperanto: “Nineve”
- Esperanto: “Ninevo”
- Esperanto: “Ninivo”
- Estonian: “Ninive”
- Finnish: “Ninive”
- French: “Ninive”
- Galician: “Nínive”
- Georgian: “ნინევია”
- German: “Ninive”
- Greek: “Νινευη”
- Greek: “Νινευή”
- Greek: “Νινευί”
- Hebrew: “נינוה”
- Hindi: “निनवेह”
- Hindi: “निनावा”
- Hindi: “नीनवे”
- Hungarian: “Ninive”
- Icelandic: “Níneve”
- Indonesian: “Niniwe”
- Irish: “Nineveh”
- Italian: “Ninive”
- Japanese: “クユンジク”
- Japanese: “ニネヴェ”
- Kazakh: “Ниневия”
- Korean: “니네베”
- Kurdish: “Nînewa”
- Latin: “Ninive”
- Latvian: “Ninīve”
- Lithuanian: “Ninevija”
- Macedonian: “Ниневија”
- Macedonian: “Нинива”
- Malagasy: “Ninive”
- Malayalam: “നിനവേ”
- Marathi: “निनेवे”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ninive”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ninive”
- Norwegian: “Ninive”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Niniva”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ninive”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܢܝܢܘܐ”
- Persian: “نینوا”
- Polish: “Niniwa”
- Portuguese: “Nínive”
- Romanian: “Ninive”
- Russian: “Ниневия”
- Rusyn: “Нініве”
- Sardinian: “Ninive”
- Scots: “Nineveh”
- Serbian: “Нинива”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Niniva”
- Slovak: “Ninive”
- Slovenian: “Ninive”
- South Azerbaijani: “نینوا”
- Spanish: “Ninive”
- Spanish: “Nínive”
- Swahili: “Ninawi”
- Swedish: “Nineve”
- Swiss German: “Ninive”
- Tagalog: “Nineveh”
- Tagalog: “Ninive”
- Tamil: “நினிவே”
- Thai: “นิเนเวห์”
- Turkish: “Ninova”
- Ukrainian: “Ніневія”
- Urdu: “نینوا”
- Uzbek: “Nineviya”
- Vietnamese: “Nineveh”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ninibe”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ninive”
- Welsh: “Ninefeh”
- Western Panjabi: “نینوا”
- Wu Chinese: “尼尼微”
- Yiddish: “נינוה”
- Yue Chinese: “尼尼微”
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