Dur-Šharru-ukin

Dur-Šharru-ukin - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Dur-Sharrukin ("Fortress of Sargon"; , Syriac: ܕܘܪ ܫܪܘ ܘܟܢ), present day Khorsabad, was the Assyrian capital in the time of Sargon II of Assyria. Khorsabad is a village in northern Iraq, 15 km northeast of Mosul. The great city was entirely built in the decade preceding 706 BC. After the unexpected death of Sargon in battle, the capital was shifted 20 km south to Nineveh. Read more on Wikipedia

type: ancient site
date from: In the decade preceding 706 BC

Source: en.wikipedia.org