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Coordinates: 36°21′34″N 43°09′10″E / 36.35944°N 43.15278°E / 36.35944; 43.15278
Nineveh (English pronunciation: /ˈnɪn.ɪv.ə/; Akkadian: Ninwe; Classical Syriac: ܢܸܢܘܵܐ; Hebrew: נינוה Nīnewē; Greek: Νινευη Nineuē; Latin: Nineve; Arabic: نينوى Naynuwa; Persian: نینوا Nainavā) was an ancient Assyrian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, and capital of the Neo Assyrian Empire. Its ruins are across the river from the modern-day major city of Mosul, in the Ninawa Governorate of Iraq.
The origin of the name Nineveh is obscure. Possibly it meant originally the seat of Ishtar, since Nina was one of the Babylonian names of that goddess. The ideogram means "house or place of fish," and was perhaps due to popular etymology (comp. Aramaic "nuna," denoting "fish").
Ancient Nineveh's mound-ruins of Kouyunjik and Nabī Yūnus are located on a level part of the plain near the junction of the Tigris and the Khosr Rivers within a 7 km² (1732 acres) area circumscribed by a 12-kilometre (7.5 mi) brick rampart. This whole extensive space is now one immense area of ruins overlaid in parts by new suburbs of the city of Mosul.
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Actors: Armand Assante (actor), Robert Davi (actor), Costas Mandylor (actor), Omar Sharif (actor), Leonor Varela (actress), Valentina Cervi (actress), Max Ryan (actor), Zuhal Olcay (actress), Robin Fraser-Paye (costume designer), Roger Christian (director), Roger Christian (writer), Gerry Toomey (producer), Beni Atoori (producer), Beni Atoori (writer), Özgü Namal (actress),
Plot: One of the world's oldest legends comes to life. The hated King Gilgamesh strikes at the Gods as he tries to maintain power and as he seeks the answers to happiness and immortality. All his struggles are in vain, for what he seeks is closer to him than he ever realized.
Keywords: epicit's so hard for me to tell you how i feel.
and i can never say exactly what i mean.
you are my nineveh and i've been jonah from the start.
and i can't let you make the same mistakes i've made.
if for a moment i could overcome my fear
i wouldn't have to hide behind this fiction wall.
sometimes i wonder how i call myself your friend.
a failure to myself.
a failure to him.
what if i told you.
would you reach for him after all.
would you fall down to your knees.
would you walk away from it all.
would you fall down at his feet.
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and i watch you live in months between the sun.
i can't help but feel that i wanted more than this.
and still i smile inside and know it's not the end.