Assur
Assur is an ancient Assyrian ruin in Northwestern Iraq. In the Bronze Age, it was an important trade hub. The city remained continuously inhabited for over 4000 years, but was abandoned in the 14th century after the residents were massacred by the Timurid Empire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: archaeological site in Iraq
- Also known as: “Ashur”, “Āshūr”, “Aššur”, “Aššûr”, and “Qal’at Sherqat”
Assur
- Categories: human settlement, ancient city, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Al-Shirqat District, Salah ad Din Governorate, Northwestern Iraq, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Assur” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Asjoer, Aššur”
- Afrikaans: “Assur”
- Albanian: “Ashur”
- Amharic: “አሹር”
- Arabic: “آشور”
- Arabic: “قلعة الشرقاط”
- Arabic: “مدينة آشور”
- Armenian: “Աշուր”
- Azerbaijani: “Aşşur”
- Bashkir: “Ассур”
- Bashkir: “Ашшур”
- Basque: “Assur”
- Belarusian: “Ашур (горад)”
- Belarusian: “Ашур”
- Bengali: “আশুর”
- Bulgarian: “Асур”
- Bulgarian: “Ашур”
- Catalan: “Assur”
- Central Kurdish: “ئاشوور”
- Chinese: “亚述古城”
- Chinese: “亚述城”
- Chinese: “亚述尔”
- Chinese: “亞述古城”
- Chinese: “卡拉特·塞尔卡特”
- Chinese: “舍尔加特堡”
- Chinese: “阿淑尔”
- Chinese: “阿淑尔城”
- Chinese: “阿舒尔”
- Croatian: “Ašur”
- Czech: “Aššur”
- Czech: “Aššúr”
- Dagbani: “Assur”
- Dutch: “Assoer (stad)”
- Dutch: “Assoer”
- Dutch: “Assur”
- Dutch: “Aššur”
- Dutch: “Qal’at Sherqat”
- Egyptian Arabic: “آشور”
- Esperanto: “Asiro”
- Esperanto: “Asuro”
- Esperanto: “Aŝuro”
- Estonian: “Assur”
- Estonian: “Aššur”
- Estonian: “Qal’at Sherqat”
- Fanti: “Assur”
- Finnish: “Assur”
- French: “Ashur”
- French: “Assur”
- French: “Aššur”
- Georgian: “აშური”
- German: “Assur”
- German: “Aššur”
- German: “Kalat Schergat”
- German: “Kalat Scherkat”
- German: “Kalat Scherkât”
- Greek: “Ασσούρ”
- Hebrew: “אשור”
- Hindi: “अश्शूर”
- Hungarian: “Assur”
- Indonesian: “Assur”
- Irish: “Assur”
- Italian: “Assur”
- Italian: “Kalah Sherkat”
- Italian: “Qal’at Sherqat”
- Italian: “Qal’at Shirqat”
- Japanese: “アッシュール”
- Japanese: “アッシュル”
- Kazakh: “Ашшур”
- Kirghiz: “Ашшур”
- Korean: “아수르”
- Korean: “아슈르”
- Kurdish: “Asûr”
- Kurdish: “ئاسوور”
- Latin: “Assur (urbs)”
- Latin: “Assur”
- Latvian: “Ašūra”
- Lithuanian: “Ašūras”
- Macedonian: “Асур”
- Maithili: “अशुर”
- Maltese: “Ashur”
- Maltese: “Assur”
- Maltese: “Aššur”
- Mongolian: “Ашур”
- Mossi: “Assur”
- Nepali: “अशुर”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Assur”
- Norwegian: “Assur”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Assur”
- Persian: “آثورا”
- Persian: “آسورستان”
- Persian: “آشور”
- Persian: “اثورا”
- Persian: “اسورستان”
- Persian: “امپراتوری آشور”
- Persian: “امپراتوری اشور”
- Persian: “شهر آشور”
- Polish: “Aszur”
- Polish: “Kalaat Szirkat”
- Polish: “Kalat asz-Szarkat”
- Portuguese: “Alsacarte”
- Portuguese: “Ashur”
- Portuguese: “Assur”
- Portuguese: “Aššur”
- Romanian: “Assur”
- Russian: “Ассур”
- Russian: “Ашшур”
- Serbian: “Asur”
- Serbian: “Асур”
- Serbian: “Ашур”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Assur”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Asur”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ašur”
- Slovak: “Assur”
- Slovak: “Aššur”
- Slovenian: “Ašur”
- Somali: “Assur”
- Spanish: “Ashur”
- Spanish: “Assur”
- Spanish: “Aššur”
- Spanish: “Laodiceo”
- Swedish: “Ashur”
- Swedish: “Assur”
- Swedish: “Qal’at Sherqat”
- Swedish: “Qalat Shergat”
- Swiss German: “Assur”
- Tagalog: “Assur”
- Tamil: “அசூர், பண்டைய நகரம்”
- Tosk Albanian: “Assur”
- Turkish: “Asur”
- Twi: “Assur”
- Ukrainian: “Ашшур”
- Urdu: “آشور”
- Uzbek: “Ashshur”
- Vietnamese: “Assur”
- Waray (Philippines): “Assur”
- Western Frisian: “Assur”
- Wu Chinese: “亚述古城”
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