'''Eber-Nari''' ([[Akkadian language|Akkadian]], also '''Ebir-Nari'')'), '''Abar-Nahara''' עבר-נהרה ([[Aramaic Language|Aramaic]]) or 'Ābēr Nahrā ([[Syriac Language|Syriac]]) meaning "Beyond the River" or "Across the River" in both the [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]] and [[Imperial Aramaic]] languages of the [[Neo-Assyrian Empire]], i.e., the Western bank of the [[Euphrates]] from a [[Mesopotamia]]n and [[Ancient Persia|Persian]] viewpoint), also referred to as '''Transeuphratia''' ({{lang-fr|Transeuphratène}}) by modern scholars, was a region of [[Western Asia]] and a [[satrapy]] of the [[Neo-Assyrian Empire]] (911–605 BC), [[Neo-Babylonian Empire]] (612–539 BC) and [[Achaemenid Empire]] (539–332 BC). The [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]] Eber-Nari is referred to as [[Achaemenid Assyria|Athura]] or Athuriya in [[Old Persian cuneiform|Old Persian]], and [[Assur|Aššur]] in the Elamite.<ref>{{Cite book|last=John|first=Boardman|title=The Cambridge Ancient History: pt. 1. The prehistory of the Balkans; and the Middle East and the Aegean world, tenth to eighth centuries B.C|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1991|pages=434|quote=In the Babylonian version of the text the transportation to Babylon is credited to the people of eber nari, showing that to the scribe or scribes of these inscriptions the Babylonian equivalent of Old Persian Athura was eber nari...}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Shawn Tuell|first=Steven|title=The Law of the Temple in Ezekiel 40-48|publisher=Scholars Press|pages=158|quote=Moreover, in a bilingual building inscription of Darius at Susa, the Old Persian kara hya Athuriya ("people of the Assyrians") is rendered in Akkadian as sabe sa eber nari ("people of eber nari")...}}</ref> The [[Targum Onkelos]] lists [[Nineveh]], [[Nimrud|Calah]], [[Rehoboth (Bible)|Reheboth]], and [[Resen (Bible)|Resen]] as being in the jurisdiction of [[Achaemenid Assyria|Athura]].
