The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location
Nineveh
- city
The ruined Assyrian capital on the Tigris, opposite the later city of Mosul. Gibbon invokes it as an ancient site in the Mesopotamian theater, not as a living medieval capital.
- Type
- city
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 205
- Books
- 1
History
BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)
The ruined Assyrian capital on the Tigris, opposite the later city of Mosul. Gibbon invokes it as an ancient site in the Mesopotamian theater, not as a living medieval capital.
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