Nimrud (; ) is the later
Arab name for the ancient
Assyrian city originally known as
Kalhu, located south of the city of
Mosul, and south of the village of Selamiyah , in the
Nineveh plains in northern
Mesopotamia. It was a major Assyrian city between approximately 1250 BC and 610 BC. The city is located in a strategic position north of the point that the river
Tigris meets its
tributary the
Great Zab. The city covered an area of . The ruins of the city were found within of the modern-day Assyrian village of Noomanea in
Nineveh Province,
Iraq. This is some southeast of
Mosul.