| ASSYRIA | Ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia, part of present-day Iraq (7) |
| ISLEOFELY | Former county of England now part of present-day Cambridgeshire (4,2,3) |
| RHAETIA | Alpine province of ancient Rome including parts of present-day Tyrol and Switzerland (7) |
| ILLYRIA | Ancient region on the Adriatic Sea including parts of present-day Albania, Croatia and Montenegro (7 |
| BABYLON | Ancient city in present-day Iraq |
| NINEVEH | Bygone city in present-day Iraq, once the world's most populous |
| PRUSSIA | Former kingdom in northern Germany (7) |
| MANDEAN | Relating to an ancient kingdom in south-western Arabia (7) |
| NUMIDIA | Ancient kingdom in North Africa corresponding roughly to presentday Algeria. (7) |
| DAHOMEY | Ancient kingdom in what is now Benin (7) |
| ADVICES | And they provide information of present day bad habits (7) |
| HOLLAND | Historical region of present-day Netherlands (7) |
| SCYTHIA | Ancient kingdom in the Pontic steppe |
| SUMER | Ancient region of southern Mesopotamia in present-day Iraq; site of cities including Ur and Kish (5) |
| FLANDERS | Geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands |
| ASSYRIANS | Inhabitants of an ancient kingdom of northern Mesopotamia, maybe living in Assur or Nineveh |
| SWEDEN | A kingdom in northern Europe, occupying part of the Scandinavian Peninsula (6) |
| PETRA | Ancient city in the south of present-day Jordan; capital of the former Nabataean kingdom |
| ASSUR | Earliest capital of Assyria, on the west bank of the Tigris river in modern-day Iraq (5) |
| OSTROGOTHS | People who created a kingdom in northern Italy in AD493 |
