Nineveh, an exceeding great city, capital of ancient Assyria, which stood on the left bank of the Tigris, opposite the modern town of Mosul, said to have been included within a wall 60 m. long, 100 ft. high, the breadth of three chariots in width, and defended by 1500 towers each 200 ft. in height.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Nimrod * Ninian St.