There was very high turnout in their provinces of Anbar, Nineveh, and Salahuddin.
Paul Bremer's Victory Lap|Tunku Varadarajan|March 29, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Mr. Layard impressed me as more taken up with concerns of Nineveh and Wardour Street than of la haute politique.
Romantic Spain|John Augustus O'Shea
Ninus, the supposed founder of Nineveh, was the husband of Semiramis.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7)|Geoffrey Chaucer
One volume that he read from cover to cover before he was eight years old was Layard's "Nineveh."
Bert Lloyd's Boyhood|J. McDonald Oxley
Of a statue of Istar, in her old temple at Nineveh, we have at the least the head.
The History of Antiquity, Vol. III (of VI)|Max Duncker
In the vicinity there were no quarries of alabaster, or of limestone, such as existed near Nineveh.
Museum of Antiquity|L. W. Yaggy
British Dictionary definitions for Nineveh
Nineveh
/ (ˈnɪnɪvə) /
noun
the ancient capital of Assyria, on the River Tigris opposite the present-day city of Mosul (N Iraq): at its height in the 8th and 7th centuries bc; destroyed in 612 bc by the Medes and Babylonians