The two main tells, or mound-ruins, within the walls are Tell Kuyunjiq and Tell NabД« YЕ«nus, site of a shrine to Jonah, the prophet who preached to Nineveh. Its ruins lie across the river from the modern-day major city of Mosul, in Iraq's Nineveh Governorate. It declined relative to Mosul during the Middle Ages and was mostly abandoned by the 13th century AD. The city was never again a political or administrative centre, but by Late Antiquity it was the seat of a Christian bishop. It was the largest city in the world for approximately fifty years until the year 612 BC when, after a bitter period of civil war in Assyria, it was sacked by a coalition of its former subject peoples including the Babylonians, Medes, Persians, Scythians and Cimmerians. Today, it is a common name for the half of Mosul that lies on the eastern bank of the Tigris, and the country's Nineveh Governorate takes its name from it. It is located on the eastern bank of the Tigris River and was the capital and largest city of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, as well as the largest city in the world for several decades.

Nineveh ( / Л€ n ЙЄ n ЙЄ v Й™/ Arabic: Щ†ЩЋЩЉЩ’Щ†ЩЋЩ€ЩЋЩ‰Щ° NaynawДЃ Syriac: ЬўЬќЬјЬўЬЬ№Ьђ, romanized: NД«nwД“ Akkadian: р’Њ·р’‰Њр’‰Ўр’ЂЂ URUNI.NU.A Ninua) was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located on the outskirts of Mosul in modern-day northern Iraq.

Babylon city