The History of Antiquity (Vol. 1-6). Duncker Max

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Название The History of Antiquity (Vol. 1-6)
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the Diala as the border between the later Assyria and Elam. The use of the name Assyria for Mesopotamia and Babylonia, as well as Assyria proper, in Herodotus (e.g. 1, 178) and other Greeks—the name Syria, which is only an abbreviation of Assyria (Herod. 7, 63)—arises from the period of the supremacy of Assyria in the epoch 750–650 B.C. Cf. Strabo, pp. 736, 737, and Nöldeke, ΑΣΣΥΡΙΟΣ, Hermes, 1871 (5), 443 ff.

      CHAPTER II.

      THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ASSYRIAN KINGDOM.

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