Assyria was titled after its original capital, the old city of Assur, which records back to c. 2600 BC.
Assyria was the region which is dwelled near East which was under the Neo-Assyrian Empire and stretched from Mesopotamia modern-day Iraq through Asia Minor modern Turkey and down through Egypt.
The empire established at the city of Ashur (identified as Subartu to the Sumerians) and in Mesopotamia north-east of Babylon. Merchants who traded in Anatolia and became more wealthy and this affluence conceded with the growth and prosperity of the city.
At its peak, the sates which fell under the control of Assyrian empire when the empire was expanded are from Cyprus and the East Mediterranean to Iran, and from Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Caucasus to the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt, and Eastern Libya.
