Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Nineveh (Akkadian: Ninua; Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ; Hebrew: , N new ; Greek: ; Latin: Nineve; Arabic: , Na nuwa), an "exceeding great city", as it is called in the Book of Jonah, lay on the eastern bank of the Tigris in ancient Assyria, across the river from the modern-day major city of Mosul, in the Ninawa Governorate of Iraq.Ancient Nineveh''s mound-ruins of Kouyunjik and Nab Y nus are located on a level part of the plain near the junction of the Tigris and the Khosr Rivers within an 1,800-acre (7 km2) area circumscribed by a 12-kilometre (7.5 mi) brick rampart. This whole extensive space is now one immense area of ruins overlaid in parts by new suburbs of the city of Mosul.