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Assur

as·sur

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noun

1.

an ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria; just south of the modern city of Mosul in Iraq

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Learned borrowing from Akkadian 𒀸𒋩𒆠 (Aššūr, “Assur”).

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