Nineveh
- Ancient name
- Nineveh
- Modern name
- Mosul
- Modern country
- Iraq
- Coordinates
- 36.35, 43.16
- World Historical Gazetteer
- https://whgazetteer.org/places/portal/8364318
The city of Nineveh, on the site of present-day Mosul (Iraq), was the capital of Assyria under the Neo-Assyrian Empire; its wickedness and destruction are foretold in several books of the Old Testament (Nahum, Isaiah, Zephaniah, Tobit), but the book of Jonah relates God's mercy upon the city. It is generally paired in La sfera with the medieval city of Baghdad, its neighbor along the Tigris River in Mesopotamia.
The toponym Nineveh appears in La Sfera in the following places:
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Map of the location P102
Variant spellings of Nineveh in Sfera manuscripts
| Variant | Manuscripts |
|---|---|
| C. Ninive | Ricc6 |
| citta ninive | Par1 |
| miniac | Fn12 |
| Nineve | Ashb4, Vat2 |
| nineve | Ashb6, Bos, Ricc1 |
| NINEVE | Fn8 |
| ninie | Magl4 |
| ninine | Ricc15 |
| Niniue | Par3 |
| ninive | Bal, Barb3, Barb4, Chig2, Fn6, Fn9, Fo, He2, Laur3, Laur5, ME2, Marc1, Marc2, Med3, NB, NYPL1, NYPL3, New, Pad1, Pal5, Pal8, Pnc5, Ricc11, Ricc12, Ricc13, Ro2, Urb1, Yale4 |
| Ninive | BL01, Cap1, Clas2, Con3, Con4, Cors2, Cs1, MB, Magl2, Morg, NYPL2, Parm2, Pnc4, Ricc14, To2, Vat3, Wie1 |
| NINIVE | BL02 |
| Ninive sommersa & disfacta | Luc2 |
| Ninive submersa e disfatta | Med1 |
| ninve | He3 |
- Suggested citation
- Beneš, Carrie. “Nineveh.” Gregorio Dati’s La sfera = The Globe: A Digital Edition, November 13, 2026. https://la-sfera-staging-a8db029690a6.herokuapp.com/toponyms/nineveh/.