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c. 6000 BCENineveh is first settled.
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c. 3000 BCE - c. 2000 BCENineveh is a major religious center for the worship of the goddess Ishtar.
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1273 BCE - 1244 BCEKing Shalmanesar I builds a palace and temple at Nineveh.
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c. 1000 BCELarge scale building projects continue in Nineveh.
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681 BCE - 669 BCEReign of Sennacherib's son, Esarhaddon, who continues building projects.
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668 BCE - 627 BCEReign of King Ashurbanipal, last king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Palace and Library built at Nineveh.
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c. 647 BCE - c. 629 BCEExtensive collection of clay tablets acquired known as Ashurbanipal's Library at Nineveh.
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625 BCEIncursions by Babylonians, Elamites, Medes and Scythians weakens the city of Nineveh.
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612 BCENineveh is sacked and burned by combined forces of Babylonians and Medes.
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627 CESite of The Battle of Nineveh which ends the Byzantine-Sassanid war.
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651 CEMuslim Conquest of Mesopotamia.
