Modern locations of places in the Bible:
Til Assuri (ancient name)
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| Latitude, Longitude | 35.111944, 45.686389 |
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| Type | settlement |
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| Point Precision | 100 km |
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| General Location Notes | - Grabbe, Like a Bird in a Cage (2003) (page 210): “on the Diyala River, near the border between Babylonia and Media”
- Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (1992) (Tel-assar (place)): “near the Assyrian border with Elam”
- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1979) (Tel-assar): “in Media”
- Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000) (Tel-assar): “a Babylonian city located in Media near Ecbatana”
- Koutoupis, Paradise Lost: In Search of Eden (2014): “Written in the Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles as Til-Assuri, it has been identified with Bit-Burnaki (also written as Bit-Bunakku) in Elam, to the East of Mesopotamia in modern day Iran”
- Encyclopaedia Iranica: “Bīt Bunakki... is near or in the mountains, as the ’passes of Bīt Bunakki’ are noted, and it is located near Rāši, east of Dēr (modern Badra), in one text”
- Sweeney, I and II Kings (2007) (page 418): “in the Zagros region along the lower Diyala River”
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Biblical places associated with Til Assuri
10-meter-per-pixel satellite Image
Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2019 (modified)