In comparison, Colombia is made up of 48 million Spanish speakers and Spain only has 46 million. The report also found that there are now around 559 million Spanish speakers worldwide. About 470 million of those people are native speakers.
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word Assyria. Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Assyria(noun) an ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq. Assyria. Assyria, was a Semitic Akkadian kingdom, existing as a nation state from the late 25th or earlyâ24th century BC until 605 BC. Assyria was centered on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia. The Assyrians came to rule powerful empires a number of times through history.
Is Assyria the same as Syria today? Assyria was an ancient empire whose capital city was Nineveh (II Kings 19:36). It was primarily located in Mesopotamia, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers on the western end -- roughly where Iraq is currently located. Syria was kingdom located at the northeast corner of Israel, lying between Israel and the Euphrates river.