Nineveh

Nineveh was an ancient city of Upper Mesopotamia on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, at the point where the Tigris meets the smaller Khosr River, within the modern city of Mosul in northern Iraq. The urban area covered about 750 hectares, roughly 7.5 square kilometers, and was ringed by a fortification wall some 12 kilometers long enclosing two principal mounds, Tell Kuyunjiq and Tell Nabi Yunus. Situated in the broad plain of Upper Mesopotamia, Nineveh's position on the Tigris gave it river access north into Anatolia and south toward the Persian Gulf, and its site near 36.36 degrees north, 43.15 degrees east places it directly opposite the older core of present-day Mosul on the river's west bank.