The Meaning of Ninawa: (Nineveh)
Ninawa was once the most powerful city in the Middle East, and is referred to as far back as 1800 BC as a worship place of Ishtar, the Middle Eastern goddess related of love for the Babylonians and the Assyrians.

Ninawa was the unifying city on the great commercial highway between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, and is refered to in the Bible as being built by Nimrod, and in the Book of Jonah as "an exceedingly great city" (Jonah 3:3). It is also believed to be the site where Noah built his arc.

Ninawa is a city remembered for it's many Jewish prophets as well as being a great cultural centre for music and the arts in Islamic times. More recently, the city has been the site of US invasion in 2003, and in 2005 two of it's great cities were the scenes of much devastation due to fighting between US led troops and Iraqi insurgents who moved to the city after the Battle of Fallujah in 2004.