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{{Short description|Satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire}}
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'''Eber-Nari''' or '''Ebir-Nari''' ([[Akkadian language|Akkadian]]), also '''Abar-Nahara''' ([[Aramaic]]) or '''Aber Nahra''' ([[Syriac language|Syriac]]), was a region of the [[ancient Near East]]. Translated as "Beyond the River" or "Across the River" in both the Akkadian and Aramaic languages, it referred to the land on the opposite side of the [[Euphrates]] from the perspective of [[Mesopotamia]] and [[Iranian Plateau|Persia]]. In this context, the region is
In the "DSf" [[Achaemenid royal inscriptions|Achaemenid royal inscription]], the Akkadian Eber-Nari is referred to as [[Achaemenid Assyria|Athura or Athuriya]] in [[Old Persian]] and as [[Assur|Aššur]] in [[Elamite language|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=433–434|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]], an Aramaic translation of the [[Torah]], lists [[Nineveh]], [[Nimrud|Calah]], [[Rehoboth (Bible)|Reheboth]], and [[Resen (Bible)|Resen]] as being in the Athura jurisdiction.
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