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Nineveh in American English
capital of ancient Assyria, on the Tigris: ruins opposite modern Mosul in N Iraq
noun: the ancient capital of Assyria: its ruins are opposite Mosul, on the Tigris River, in N Iraq

Nineveh in British English
noun: the ancient capital of Assyria, on the River Tigris opposite the present-day city of Mosul (N Iraq): at its height in the 8th and 7th centuries bc; destroyed in 612 bc by the Medes and Babylonians

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