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.

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All labels observed (11)

Label Occurrences
Assur 18
Ashur canonical 17
Ashur (Assyrian god) 2

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ
ancient city ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ
addedToListOfWorldHeritageInDanger 2003 ⓘ
associatedWith Middle Assyrian ⓘ
surface form: Middle Assyrian period

Assyria ⓘ
surface form: Neo-Assyrian Empire

Old Assyrian ⓘ
surface form: Old Assyrian period
conqueredBy Hammurabi ⓘ
surface form: 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 ⓘ
ziggurat of Ashur ⓘ
surface form: temple of Ashur

ziggurat of Ashur ⓘ
heritageDesignation List of World Heritage in Danger ⓘ
surface form: World Heritage in Danger
inscribedBy UNESCO ⓘ
languageOfInscriptions Akkadian ⓘ
laterControlledBy Mitanni ⓘ
locatedIn northern Iraq ⓘ
locatedOn Tigris ⓘ
surface form: Tigris River
modernName Qalʿat Sherqat ⓘ
namedAfter Ashur self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Ashur (Assyrian god)
near Sharqat ⓘ
partOf Mesopotamia ⓘ
surface form: ancient Mesopotamia
politicalRole center of Old Assyrian trade network ⓘ
royal residence of early Assyrian kings ⓘ
primaryDeityWorshipped Ashur self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: 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 region ⓘ
surface form: Levant
UNESCOWorldHeritageCriteria (iii) ⓘ
(iv) ⓘ
(v) ⓘ
UNESCOWorldHeritageInscriptionYear 2003 ⓘ
UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteId 1130 ⓘ
writingSystem cuneiform ⓘ

Referenced by (46)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Iraq → UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteWithin → Ashur ⓘ
Assyria → capital → Ashur ⓘ
Assyria → majorCity → Ashur ⓘ
Assyria → namedAfter → Ashur ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ashur (deity)
Assyria → patronDeity → Ashur ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ashur (deity)
Assyria → predecessor → Ashur ⓘ
this entity surface form: Old Assyrian city-state of Ashur
Ashur → namedAfter → Ashur self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ashur (Assyrian god)
Ashur → primaryDeityWorshipped → Ashur self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ashur (Assyrian god)
Āṯūrāyē → linkedToAncientToponym → Ashur ⓘ
this entity surface form: Assur (Aššur)
Sargon II → patronDeity → Ashur ⓘ
Tiglath-Pileser III → associatedDeity → Ashur ⓘ
Upper Mesopotamia → hasArchaeologicalSite → Ashur ⓘ
this entity surface form: Assur
Old Assyrian → associatedWith → Ashur ⓘ
this entity surface form: Assur
Shamash → majorCultCenter → Ashur ⓘ
this entity surface form: Assur
Neo-Assyrian → notableCorpusLocation → Ashur ⓘ
this entity surface form: Assur
Neša → tradedWith → Ashur ⓘ
this entity surface form: Assur
Old Assyrian commercial law → centeredIn → Ashur ⓘ
this entity surface form: Assur
Haldi → equatedWith → Ashur ⓘ
this entity surface form: Assyrian god Ashur
Ashurbanipal → patronDeity → Ashur ⓘ
Akitu → associatedDeity → Ashur ⓘ
this entity surface form: Assur
Akitu → associatedDeity → Ashur ⓘ
Kaneš → connectedTo → Ashur ⓘ
this entity surface form: Assur
Qalʿat Sherqat → preservesRuinsOf → Ashur ⓘ
Qalʿat Sherqat → hasOriginalName → Ashur ⓘ
Sharqat → nearby → Ashur ⓘ
Sharqat → proximityTo → Ashur ⓘ
this entity surface form: ancient Assyrian city of Ashur
ziggurat of Ashur → locatedIn → Ashur ⓘ
subject surface form: Ziggurat of Ashur
ziggurat of Ashur → associatedWithCity → Ashur ⓘ
subject surface form: Ziggurat of Ashur
Assyrian king Ashur-uballit I → capital → Ashur ⓘ
subject surface form: Ashur-uballit I
this entity surface form: Aššur
Assyrian king Ashur-uballit I → mainDeityVenerated → Ashur ⓘ
subject surface form: Ashur-uballit I
Assyrian king Ashur-uballit I → powerBase → Ashur ⓘ
subject surface form: Ashur-uballit I
this entity surface form: city of Aššur
Balaam’s oracles → mention → Ashur ⓘ
this entity surface form: Asshur
Adad → centerOfCult → Ashur ⓘ
this entity surface form: Assur
Ashurnasirpal II → patronOf → Ashur ⓘ
Middle Assyrian Laws → discoveredAt → Ashur ⓘ
this entity surface form: Assur
Shalmaneser III → worshippedDeity → Ashur ⓘ
Assyrian religion → coreDeity → Ashur ⓘ
Assyrian religion → centralCultCity → Ashur ⓘ
this entity surface form: Assur
King of Assyria → hasCapital → Ashur ⓘ
Eighth Dynasty of Assyria → namedAfter → Ashur ⓘ
this entity surface form: Assur
Assyrian inscriptions → foundIn → Ashur ⓘ
this entity surface form: Assur
Fall of the Assyrian Empire → hasSignificantPlace → Ashur ⓘ
this entity surface form: Assur
Shamshi-Adad I → conqueredCity → Ashur ⓘ
this entity surface form: Assur
Shamshi-Adad I → capital → Ashur ⓘ
this entity surface form: Assur
Shamshi-Adad I → builtOrDevelopedCity → Ashur ⓘ
this entity surface form: Assur
Ashur-nirari V → capital → Ashur ⓘ
this entity surface form: Assur