ashur

Tribes of Arameans were, meanwhile, moving into Mesopotamia from the west, pushing the boundaries of Assyria back to the capital Ashur .

Further North lay the city of Ashur on a rocky promontory overlooking an important crossing of the River Tigris.

In the 15th century BC, Saushtatar, king of "Hanilgalbat" (Hurrians of Mitanni), sacked Ashur and made Assyria a vassal.

These people usually appeared fat and short. Their noses looked like those of the huge statues in Ashur .

At the end of the nineteenth century BCE an ambitious solder called Shamshi- Adad brought Ashur under his control.

As an important trading centre, Ashur had by 1900 BCE established commercial colonies in Anatolia (modern day Turkey).

It grew from a small region around Ashur (in northern Iraq) to encompass an area stretching from Palestine to Anatolia.

Besides Ashur, the other three royal Assyrian cities were Calah (Nimrud), Khorsabad, and Nineveh.

He moved away from Ashur and built himself a new capital city at Kalhu (Biblical Calah, modern Nimrud).

The empire collapsed and Ashur and the North were now open to attack.

And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

The same holds for Ashur.

A pile of Ashur seeds.