Assirie, a major Mesopotamian East Semitic kinrick an empire o the Auncient Near East, existit as an independent state for a period o approximately nineteen centuries, frae the 25t century BC tae 605 BC, spannin the mid tae Early Bronze Age throu tae the late Airn Age.

Auld Assirian Empire

1250 BC–612 BC
Owerview cairt o the Auncient Near East in the 15t century BC (Middle Assirian period), shawin the core territory o Assirie wi its twa major ceeties Assur an Nineveh wedged atween Babylonie dounstream (tae the sooth-east) an the states o Mitanni an Hatti upstream (tae the north-wast).
Owerview cairt o the Auncient Near East in the 15t century BC (Middle Assirian period), shawin the core territory o Assirie wi its twa major ceeties Assur an Nineveh wedged atween Babylonie dounstream (tae the sooth-east) an the states o Mitanni an Hatti upstream (tae the north-wast).
CaipitalAššur
Common leidsAkkadian
Sumerian
Releegion
Mesopotamian releegion
GovrenmentMonarchy
Keeng 
• 2025 BC
Puzur-Ashur I (first)
• 1392-1366 BC
Eriba-Adad I (last)
Historical eraMesopotamia
• Kikkiya owerthrown
1250 BC
• Decline o Assirie
612 BC
Succeedit bi
Middle Assirian Empire
The day pairt o Iraq

Coordinates: 36°00′N 43°18′E / 36.0°N 43.3°E / 36.0; 43.3