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.
The ruins of its capital, Nineveh, are just across the Tigris River from modern-day Mosul, Iraq. The biblical Hebrew name for Assyria is Asshur, whereas the biblical name for Syria is Aram, referring the land around Damascus, far to the southwest of Assyria.