{"id":6929,"count":3,"description":"Nineveh (English pronunciation: \/\u02c8n\u026an.\u026av.\u0259\/; Akkadian: Ninwe; Syriac: \u0722\u0738\u0722\u0718\u0735\u0710\u200e; Hebrew: \u05e0\u05d9\u05e0\u05d5\u05d4\u200e N\u012bnew\u0113; Greek: \u039d\u03b9\u03bd\u03b5\u03c5\u03b7 Nineu\u0113; Latin: Nineve; Arabic: \u0646\u064a\u0646\u0648\u0649\u200e Naynuwa; Persian: \u0646\u06cc\u0646\u0648\u0627 Nainav\u0101) 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.\nThe origin of the name Nineveh is obscure. Possibly it meant originally the seat of Ishtar, since Nina was one of the Babylonian names of that goddess. The ideogram means \"house or place of fish,\" and was perhaps due to popular etymology (comp. Aramaic \"nuna,\" denoting \"fish\").\nAncient Nineveh's mound-ruins of Kouyunjik and Nab\u012b Y\u016bnus are located on a level part of the plain near the junction of the Tigris and the Khosr Rivers within a 7\u00a0km\u00b2 (1732 acres) area circumscribed by a 12-kilometre (7.5\u00a0mi) brick rampart. This whole extensive space is now one immense area of ruins overlaid in...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/nineveh\/","name":"Nineveh","slug":"nineveh","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/6929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=6929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}