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    Aθurā Persian pronunciation: [aθuɾaː]), also called Assyria, was a geographical area within the Achaemenid Empire in Upper Mesopotamia from 539 to 330 BC as...
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    BC) Classical antiquity Fall of Babylon (6th century BC) Achaemenid Babylonia, Achaemenid Assyria (6th to 4th century BC) Seleucid Mesopotamia (4th to 3rd...
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  • never assumed the title 'king of Assyria'. Throughout the time of the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid empires, Assyria was a marginal and sparsely populated...
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  • of two provinces of the Persian Empire: Achaemenid Assyria, also known as Athura Asuristan (Sassanid) Assyria (Roman province), province of the Roman...
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    involved in rivalry with the older ethno-linguistically related state of Assyria in the north of Mesopotamia and Elam to the east in Ancient Iran. Babylonia...
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    a physician in the service of the Achaemenid king Artaxerxes II and wrote about Assyria, Media, and the Achaemenid Empire in his work Persica, consisting...
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    The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the Persian Empire or First Persian Empire (/əˈkiːmənɪd/; Old Persian: 𐎧𐏁𐏂, Xšāça, lit. 'The...
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    ruled Assyria. Babylon and Media fell under Persian rule in the 6th century BC (Cyrus the Great). For two centuries of Achaemenid rule both Assyria and...
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    Empire. Assyria and Babylonia later became provinces under the Parthian Empire (Achaemenid Assyria and province of Babylonia), Rome (province of Assyria) and...
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    geopolitical province of Assyria under several empires in turn, including the Median Empire, the Achaemenid Empire (Achaemenid Assyria), Macedonian Empire...
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