Calah


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Ca·lah

 (kā′lə) also Ka·lakh (kä′läKH)
An ancient city of Assyria on the Tigris River south of present-day Mosul, Iraq. It was probably built in the 13th century bc.
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From that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah, and Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city," NRSV.
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The Old Testament calls Nimrud (the ancient Calah) "the principal city" of the Assyrian empire, which ravaged neighboring kingdoms from Persia to Egypt.
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Van Buylaere's edition of Sin-sarru-iskun's Cylinder B, an inscription recording this king's restoration of a temple (probably Ezida) in Calah (pp.
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