Note 10 — THE SAY OF HAYKAR THE SAGE.[6]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
i.e. “Fish-town” or “town of Nin” = Ninus, the founder. In mod. days “Naynawah” was the name of a port on the east bank of the Tigris; and moderns have unearthed the old city at Koyunjik, Nabi Yunas, and the Tall (mound of) Nimrud.