Ashur

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UNESCO World Heritage Site ancient city archaeological site

Ashur is an ancient Mesopotamian city in northern Iraq that served as the first capital and religious center of the Assyrian Empire.

Aliases (4)

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	UNESCO World Heritage Site → ancient city → archaeological site →
addedToListOfWorldHeritageInDanger	2003 →
associatedWith	Middle Assyrian period → Neo-Assyrian Empire → Old Assyrian period →
conqueredBy	Babylonian king Hammurabi →
country	Iraq →
culture	Assyrian →
earliestOccupationDate	3rd millennium BCE →
excavatedBy	German archaeological missions →
excavationStartYear	1903 →
flourishedDuring	2nd millennium BCE →
hasStructure	city walls → royal palaces → temple of Anu and Adad → temple of Ashur → ziggurat of Ashur →
heritageDesignation	World Heritage in Danger →
inscribedBy	UNESCO →
languageOfInscriptions	Akkadian →
laterControlledBy	Mitanni →
locatedIn	northern Iraq →
locatedOn	Tigris River →
modernName	Qalʿat Sherqat →
namedAfter	Ashur (Assyrian god) →
near	Sharqat →
partOf	ancient Mesopotamia →
politicalRole	center of Old Assyrian trade network → royal residence of early Assyrian kings →
primaryDeityWorshipped	Ashur (Assyrian god) →
reconqueredBy	Assyrian king Ashur-uballit I →
region	Salah ad Din Governorate →
religion	Mesopotamian polytheism →
religiousFunction	cult center of the god Ashur →
servedAs	first capital of the Assyrian Empire → religious center of the Assyrian Empire →
threatenedBy	armed conflict in Iraq → planned dam projects on the Tigris →
tradeConnections	Anatolia → Levant →
UNESCOWorldHeritageCriteria	(iii) → (iv) → (v) →
UNESCOWorldHeritageInscriptionYear	2003 →
UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteId	1130 →
writingSystem	cuneiform →

Referenced by (11)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Ashur ("Ashur (Assyrian god)") → Assyria ("Ashur (deity)") →	namedAfter
Assyria ("Ashur (deity)") → Sargon II →	patronDeity
Tiglath-Pileser III →	associatedDeity
Assyria →	capital
Āṯūrāyē ("Assur (Aššur)") →	linkedToAncientToponym
Assyria →	majorCity
Assyria ("Old Assyrian city-state of Ashur") →	predecessor
Ashur ("Ashur (Assyrian god)") →	primaryDeityWorshipped
Iraq →	UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteWithin