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Assyria

Founding of Assyria

3rd Millenium BC
Mesopotamia (Present-Day Iraq)

Greco-Roman classical writers such as Julius Africanus, Marcus Velleius Paterculus, and Diodorus Siculus dated the founding of Assyria to various dates between 2284 BC and 2057 BC, listing the earliest king as Belus or Ninus.


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