Aθurā Persian pronunciation: [aθuɾaː]), also called Assyria, was a geographical area within the Achaemenid Empire in Upper Mesopotamia from 539 to 330 BC as...

BC) Classical antiquity Fall of Babylon (6th century BC) Achaemenid Babylonia, Achaemenid Assyria (6th to 4th century BC) Seleucid Mesopotamia (4th to 3rd...

never assumed the title 'king of Assyria'. Throughout the time of the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid empires, Assyria was a marginal and sparsely populated...

involved in rivalry with the older ethno-linguistically related state of Assyria in the north of Mesopotamia and Elam to the east in Ancient Iran. Babylonia...

a physician in the service of the Achaemenid king Artaxerxes II and wrote about Assyria, Media, and the Achaemenid Empire in his work Persica, consisting...

of two provinces of the Persian Empire: Achaemenid Assyria, also known as Athura Asuristan (Sassanid) Assyria (Roman province), province of the Roman...

geopolitical province of Assyria under several empires in turn, including the Median Empire, the Achaemenid Empire (Achaemenid Assyria), Macedonian Empire...

ruled Assyria. Babylon and Media fell under Persian rule in the 6th century BC (Cyrus the Great). For two centuries of Achaemenid rule both Assyria and...

Empire. Assyria and Babylonia later became provinces under the Parthian Empire (Achaemenid Assyria and province of Babylonia), Rome (province of Assyria) and...

The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the First Persian Empire (/əˈkiːmənɪd/; Old Persian: 𐎧𐏁𐏂, Xšāça, lit. 'The Empire' or 'The...