Editing Nineveh (section)

== Geography ==
[[File:View of the village of Nunia or Ninive, Niebuhr 1778.jpg|thumb|View of the village of "Nunia" or "Ninive", published by [[Carsten Niebuhr]] in 1778]]
[[File:Views of the archaeological site of Nineveh in modern-day Mosul, currently occupied by squatters 06 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Village in Nineveh in 2019]]
The remains of ancient Nineveh, the areas of Kuyunjiq and [[Al-Nabi Yunus Mosque|Nabī Yūnus]] with their mounds, are located on a level part of the plain at the junction of the Tigris and the [[Khosr River]]s within an area of {{convert|750|ha}}<ref name="mieroop">{{cite book|last=Mieroop|first=Marc van de|title=The Ancient Mesopotamian City|year=1997|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=9780191588457|page=95|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_YKlbIp9pYMC&pg=PA95}}</ref> circumscribed by a {{convert|12|km|mi|1|adj=on}} fortification wall. This whole extensive space is now one immense area of ruins overlaid by c. one third by the Nebi Yunus suburbs of the city of eastern Mosul.<ref>Geoffrey Turner, "Tell Nebi Yūnus: The ekal māšarti of Nineveh", ''Iraq'', vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 68–85, 1970</ref>

The site of ancient Nineveh is bisected by the Khosr river. North of the Khosr, the site is called Kuyunjiq, including the acropolis of Tell Kuyunjiq; the illegal village of Rahmaniye lay in eastern Kuyunjiq. South of the Khosr, the urbanized area is called Nebi Yunus (also Ghazliya, Jezayr, Jammasa), including Tell Nebi Yunus where the mosque of the Prophet Jonah and a palace of [[Esarhaddon]]/[[Ashurbanipal]] below it are located. South of the street Al-'Asady (made by [[Islamic State|Daesh]] destroying swaths of the city walls) the area is called Junub Ninawah or Shara Pepsi.

Nineveh was an important junction for commercial routes crossing the Tigris on the great roadway between the [[Mediterranean Sea]] and the [[Indian Ocean]], thus uniting the [[Ancient Near East|East]] and the West, it received wealth from many sources, so that it became one of the greatest of all the region's ancient cities,<ref>"Proud Nineveh" is an emblem of earthly pride in the Old Testament prophecies: "And He will stretch out His hand against the north And destroy Assyria, And He will make Nineveh a desolation, Parched like the wilderness." ([[Zephaniah]] 2:13).</ref> and the last capital of the [[Neo-Assyrian Empire]].