Nineveh (Akkadian: Ninwe; Classical Syriac: ; Hebrew: נינוה Nīnewē; Greek: Νινευή Nineuē; Latin: Nineve; Arabic: نينوى Naynuwa; Persian: نینوا Nainavā) was an ancient Assyrian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, and capital of the Neo Assyrian Empire. Its ruins are across the river from the modern-day major city of Mosul, in the Ninawa Governorate of Iraq.