Accad

Accad (also spelled Akkad) was one of the four founding cities of Nimrod's kingdom in Genesis 10:10: "the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar." Akkad later gave its name to the great Mesopotamian Akkadian Empire founded by Sargon the Great around 2334 BCE — the first empire in human history. The city was the capital of that empire and the homeland of the Akkadian language that became the lingua franca of the ancient Near East. The site's exact location is uncertain; proposed sites include Tell Muhammad and other mounds near modern Baghdad.