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  • Dur-Sharrukin

    Dur-Sharrukin ("Fortress of Sargon"), present day Khorsabad, was the Assyrian capital in the time of Sargon II of Assyria. Khorsabad is a village in northern Iraq, 15 km northeast of Mosul. The great city was entirely built in the decade preceding 706 BC. After the unexpected death of Sargon in battle, the capital was shifted 20 km south to Nineveh.
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    Dur-Sharrukin
    by Marie-Lan Nguyen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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    8th Century BC

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