Coordinates: 36°21′34″N, 43°09′10″E
Nineveh (Akkadian: Ninua; Syriac: ܢܝܢܘܐ, Ninua) was an important city in ancient Assyria. This "exceeding great city", as it is called in the Book of Jonah, lay on the eastern bank of the Tigris in modern-day Mosul, Iraq.