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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 790 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ASSYRIA . The two See also:

GREAT

great empires, Assyria and See also:

BABYLON (mod. Hillah)

Babylon, which See also:

GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

grew up on the See also:

banks of the See also:

TIGRIS (Old Persian Tigrd, Diklat of the cuneiform inscriptions, Hiddekel of the Old Testament, Diglath of the Targum, Digla of the Arabs)

Tigris and See also:

EUPHRATES (Babylon. Purattu, Heb. Perath, Arab. Frdt or Furst, Old Pers. Ufratu, Gr. Eb4 parrls)

Euphrates, can be separated as little historically as geographically. From the beginning their See also:

HISTORY

history is closely intertwined; and the See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of the one is a measure of the weakness of the other. This inter-dependence of See also:

ASSYRIAN

Assyrian and Babylonian history was recognized by See also:

ancient writers, and has been confirmed by See also:

MODERN

modern See also:

DISCOVERY

discovery. But whereas Assyria takes the first See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in the classical accounts to the exclusion of Babylonia, the decipherment of the See also:

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions has proved that the converse was really the See also:

case, and that, with the exception of some seven or eight centuries, Assyria might he described as a See also:

province or dependency of Babylon. Not only was Babylonia the See also:

MOTHER

mother See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, as the tenth See also:

CHAPTER (a shortened form of chapiter, a word still used in architecture for a capital; derived from O. Fr. chapitre, Lat. capitellum, diminutive of caput, head)

chapter of See also:

Genesis explicitly states, but the See also:

religion and culture, the literature and the characters in which it was contained, the arts and the sciences of the Assyrians were derived from their See also:

SOUTHERN

southern neighbours. They were similar in See also:

RACE

race and See also:

LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language.

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