Modern locations of places in the Bible:

Til Assuri (ancient name)

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Latitude, Longitude35.111944, 45.686389
Typesettlement
Point Precision100 km
Coordinates Sources
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

satellite view of the region around Til Assuri
Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2019 (modified)