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Asshur
Ashur, Assur, or Asur may refer to: Places * Assur, an Assyrian city and first capital of ancient Assyria * Ashur, Iran, a village in Iran * Asur, Thanjavur district, a village in the Kumbakonam taluk of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India * Assuras or Assur, a town in the Roman province of Proconsular Africa Other uses *Ashur (Bible), the grandson of Noah in Genesis * Ashur (god), the main god of Assyrian mythology in Mesopotamian religion * Asur people, a tribal group living primarily in the Indian state of Jharkhand * High Elves (''Warhammer'') or Asur, a race in ''Warhammer Fantasy'' * Ashur, a traditional and common given and family name among Assyrian people See also * Asur (other) * Assyria (other) * Asura (other) * Ashura (other) * Achour (other) * Assuristan (Sassanid name for Assyria) * Anshar Anshar, also spelled Anšar ( Sumerian: , Neo-Assyrian: , meaning "whole heaven"), was a primordial god in the Babylonian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assur
Aššur (; Sumerian: AN.ŠAR2KI, Assyrian cuneiform: ''Aš-šurKI'', "City of God Aššur"; syr, ܐܫܘܪ ''Āšūr''; Old Persian ''Aθur'', fa, آشور: ''Āšūr''; he, אַשּׁוּר, ', ar, اشور), also known as Ashur and Qal'at Sherqat, was the capital of the Old Assyrian city-state (2025–1364 BC), the Middle Assyrian Empire (1363–912 BC), and for a time, of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–609 BC). The remains of the city lie on the western bank of the Tigris River, north of the confluence with its tributary, the Little Zab, in what is now Iraq, more precisely in the al-Shirqat District of the Saladin Governorate. Occupation of the city itself continued for approximately 4,000 years, from the Early Dynastic Period to the mid-14th century AD, when the forces of Timur massacred its predominately Christian population. The site is a World Heritage Site, having been added to that organisation's list of sites in danger in 2003 following the conflict that er ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashur, Iran
Ashur ( fa, اشور, also Romanized as Āshūr) is a village in Ahram Rural District, in the Central District of Tangestan County, Bushehr Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni .... At the 2006 census, its population was 66, in 14 families. References Populated places in Tangestan County {{Tangestan-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asur, Thanjavur District
Asur is a village in the Kumbakonam taluk of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a state in southern India. It is the tenth largest Indian state by area and the sixth largest by population. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, whose Tamil language .... Demographics As per the 2001 census, Asur had a total population of 2212 with 1095 males and 1117 females. The sex ratio was 1020. The literacy rate was 67.47. References * Villages in Thanjavur district {{Thanjavur-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assuras
Assuras, sometimes given as Assura or Assur, was a town in the Roman province of Proconsular Africa. Ruins of its temples and theatres and other public buildings are at ''Henchir-Zenfour''. Bishopric At an early stage Assuras became the centre of a Christian diocese. Records are extant of the names of seven of its bishops. The first of these is Fortunatianus. He was deposed because of defecting from the Catholic faith in the Decian persecution. Saint Cyprian of Carthage speaks of him in a letter that he wrote to the Christians of Assuras in about 252, which shows that he tried to recover the see from which he had been driven. He was replaced by Epictetus, who died before 256, the year in which his successor Victor took part in a council at Carthage convoked by Cyprian to deal with the problem of the '' lapsi''.Pius Bonifacius Gams''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae'' Leipzig 1931, p. 464Stefano Antonio Morcelli''Africa christiana'' Volume I, Brescia 1816, pp. 8 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashur (Bible)
Ashur ( ''ʾAššūr'') was the second son of Shem, the son of Noah. Ashur's brothers were Elam, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram. Prior to the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, there was contention in academic circles regarding whether Ashur or Nimrod built the Assyrian cities of Nineveh, Resen, Rehoboth-Ir and Calah, since the name ''Ashur'' can refer to both the person and the country (compare AV and ESV). Sir Walter Raleigh devoted several pages in his ''History of the World'' (c. 1616) to reciting past scholarship regarding the question of whether it had been Nimrod or Ashur who built the cities in Assyria. Both the JPS Tanakh 1917 and the 1611 King James Bible clarify the language of the Septuagint and Vulgate translations of Genesis 10:11-12, by explicitly crediting Ashur as the founder of the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth, Calah, and Resen. The Ge'ez version of the Book of Jubilees, affirmed by the 15 Jubilees scrolls found amongst the Dead Sea Scrolls, affirms that t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashur (god)
Ashur, Ashshur, also spelled Ašur, Aššur ( Sumerian: AN.ŠAR₂, Assyrian cuneiform: , also phonetically ) is a god of the ancient Assyrians and Akkadians, and the head of the Assyrian pantheon in Mesopotamian religion, who was worshipped mainly in northern Mesopotamia, and parts of north-east Syria and south-east Asia Minor which constituted old Assyria. He may have had a solar iconography. Legend Aššur was a deified form of the city of Assur, which dates from the mid 3rd millennium BC and was the capital of the Old Assyrian kingdom. As such, Ashur did not originally have a family, but as the cult came under southern Mesopotamian influence, he later came to be regarded as the Assyrian equivalent of Enlil, the chief god of Nippur. Enlil was the most important god of the southern pantheon from the early 3rd millennium BC until Hammurabi founded an empire based in Babylon in the mid-18th century BC, after which Marduk replaced Enlil as the chief god in the south. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asur People
Asur people are a very small Austroasiatic ethnic group living primarily in the Indian state of Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ; ) is a state in eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north and Odisha to the south. It has an area of . I ..., mostly in the Gumla district, Gumla, Lohardaga district, Lohardaga, Palamu district, Palamu and Latehar district, Latehar districts. They speak Asur language, which belongs to Munda languages, Munda family of Austro-asiatic languages. Occupations Asurs are traditionally iron-smelters. They were once hunter gatherers, having also involved in shifting agriculture. However, majority of them shifted into agriculture with 91.19 percent enlisted as cultivators in the 2011 census. Their indigenous technology of iron smelting gives them a distinct identity; as they claim to have descended from the ancient Asuras who were associated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Elves (Warhammer)
''Warhammer Fantasy'' is a fictional fantasy universe created by Games Workshop and used in many of its games, including the table top wargame ''Warhammer Fantasy Battle'', the '' Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay'' (WFRP) pen-and-paper role-playing game, and a number of video games: the MMORPG '' Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning'', the strategy games '' Total War: Warhammer'', '' Total War: Warhammer II'' and '' Total War: Warhammer III'' and the two first-person shooter games in the Warhammer Vermintide series, '' Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide'' and '' Warhammer: Vermintide 2''. Warhammer is notable for its "dark and gritty" background world, which reference a range of historical cultures, along with other fantasy settings, in particular Tolkien's Middle-earth. From Michael Moorcock, its creators took the theme of "Chaos" as a force unceasingly attempting to tear the mortal world asunder. The world itself was populated with a variety of races such as humans, high elves, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asur (other)
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Asur may refer to: * ''Asur'' (film), a 2020 Indian Bengali-language drama film * ''Asur'' (web series), a 2020 Indian Hindi-language web-series *Asur people, a Munda-speaking tribe of iron-smelters in Jharkhand *Asur, Thanjavur district, a village in the state of Tamil Nadu, India *Asur, Iran, a village in the Tehran Province of Iran *Romanian Secular-Humanist Association See also *Asura *Ashur (other) Ashur, Assur, or Asur may refer to: Places * Assur, an Assyrian city and first capital of ancient Assyria * Ashur, Iran, a village in Iran * Asur, Thanjavur district, a village in the Kumbakonam taluk of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India * A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assyria (other)
Assyria may refer to: *Assyria, an ancient empire in Mesopotamia *Either of two provinces of the Persian Empire: **Achaemenid Assyria, also known as Athura **Asuristan (Sassanid) *Assyria (Roman province), province of the Roman Empire *Asoristan, the Sassanid province *Assyrian homeland, the homeland of the Assyrian people within which Assyrian civilisation developed. **A modern term referring to the establishment of a state for the Assyrian people, see Assyrian independence movement. * Assyria Township, Michigan *Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, the commonly spoken language by the modern Assyrians See also *Assyrian (other) * Syria (other) * Ashur (other) *Name of Syria The name ''Syria'' is latinized from the Greek (). In toponymic typology, the term Syria is classified among choronyms (proper names of regions and countries). The origin and usage of the term has been the subject of interest, both among ancien ... * Names of Syriac Christians * Beth Nahrain [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asura (other)
The Asuras are a race of power-seeking deities in Hinduism. Asura may also refer to: * Asura (Buddhism), the lowest ranks of the deities of the Kāmadhātu * ''Asura'' (moth), a genus of moths in the family Erebidae * Asura (''Samurai Showdown''), a character in ''Samurai Showdown'' * Asura (''Soul Eater''), a character in the ''Soul Eater'' manga and anime series * ''Asura'' (video game), a Thai MMORPG * ''Asura'' (2001 film), an Indian film * ''Asura'' (2012 film), a Japanese film * ''Asura'' (2015 film), a Telugu film * ''Asura'' (2018 film), a Chinese film * '' Asura: The City of Madness'', a South Korean film * Asura, a subclass in the MMORPG ''Dungeon Fighter Online'' * Asura, a spaceship used by the Time-Space Administration Bureau (TSAB) in '' Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha'' * Asura, a summonable spirit in the ''Final Fantasy'' series * Asura, a humanoid race introduced in the MMORPG add-on '' Guild Wars: Eye of the North'' * Asuras, a predominantly chaotic good race ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
