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Location:

  • Iraq, Khorsabad
  • geo:36.509743,43.228264
  • Location ± 5-25 m.

Period or year:

  • -720~ / -700~

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Annotations

Dur Sharrukin in Akkadian means Fortress of Sargon. It was the Assyrian capital in the time of Sargon II of Assyria, who reigned 722 – 705 BC.


Nearby

Dur-Sharrukin [Khorsabad]

Ziggurat

Dur-Sharrukin, Annals of Sargon II [Khorsabad]

Khorsabad. Sargon`s II military chronicle

Dur Sharrukin Palace

Palace of Sargon II


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