Thursday, September 28, 2017

tanach - Where is the city of Ninveh?


Ninveh is mentioned in the book of Yona that is read on Yom Kippur. Where is Ninveh?



Answer




From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineveh:



Nineveh was an ancient Assyrian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, and capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Its ruins are across the river from the modern-day major city of Mosul, in the Ninawa Governorate of Iraq.



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