Dur-Sharrukin

Dur-Sharrukin ("Fortress of Sargon"; Arabic: دور شروكين‎), present day Khorsabad, was the Assyrian capital in the time of Sargon II of Assyria. Khorsabad is a village in northern Iraq, 15 km northeast of Mosul, which is still today inhabited by Assyrians. The great city was entirely built in the decade preceding 706 BCE. After the unexpected death of Sargon in battle, the capital was shifted 20 km south to Nineveh.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dur-Sharrukin
• Page 39 - Fagan. B.M., 2005, A Brief History of Archawilogy: Classical Times to the Twenty-First Century: Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 278p.