Mosul
Mosul (Arabic: الموصل al-Mawṣil, Kurdish: مووسڵ, Syriac: ܡܘܨܠ) is a city in the north of Iraq. Under the Ottoman Empire, it was the capital of northern Iraq and is now capital of the Nineveh Governorate. More than a million people lived there when the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant captured it in early June 2014. In July 2017, the Iraqi Army with help from Kurdish Peshmerga troops and other militias took the city back.
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| Coordinates: 36°20′N 43°08′E / 36.34°N 43.13°ECoordinates: 36°20′N 43°08′E / 36.34°N 43.13°E | |
| Country |  Iraq |
| Governorate | Nineveh Governorate |
| Area | |
| • City | 180 km2 (70 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 223 m (732 ft) |
| Population (2015) | |
| • City | 664,221 |
| • Urban | Unknown (estimates range between 750,000 and 1,500,000[1] |
| UNData 1987[3] | |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (AST) |
Further reading
- Published in the 19th century
- Jedidiah Morse. A New Universal Gazetteer (1823)S. Converse.
- Edinburgh Gazetteer (1829). Edinburgh: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green.
- Josiah Conder. Dictionary of Geography, Ancient and Modern (1834)T. Tegg.
- Handbook for Travellers in Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Persia, etc.John Murray. ISBN 9780524062142. OCLC 8979039.
- Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia (1871). Madras.
- Published in the 20th century
- Palestine and Syria (1912)Karl Baedeker.
- Encyclopaedia of Islam (1934)E.J. Brill. p. 609+. ISBN 9789004097926.
- Jacqueline Griffin. Middle East and Africa. International Dictionary of Historic PlacesRoutledge. ISBN 9781884964039.
- Published in the 21st century
- Historic Cities of the Islamic World (2007). Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. ISBN 978-9004153882.
- Cities of the Middle East and North Africa (2007)ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1576079195.
Mosul Media
Saint Elijah's Monastery 1
The Blacas ewer from Mosul
Ewer from Mosul, 1246-1247 CE
Homberg ewer. Inlaid Brass with Christian Iconography. probably Mosul, dated 1242–43
Conquest of Mosul (Nineveh) by Mustafa Pasha in 1631, a Turkish soldier in the foreground holding a severed head. L., C. (Stecher) 1631 -1650
Plates from Niebuhr
Iraqi police, U.S. Soldiers patrol neighborhood in Mosul DVIDS40282
Defense.gov News Photo 030722-A-3450H-043
A souk (traditional market) in Mosul, 1932
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References
- ↑ Malas, Nour (9 June 2015). "Iraqi City of Mosul Transformed a Year After Islamic State Capture". Wall Street Journal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/iraqi-city-of-mosul-transformed-a-year-after-islamic-state-capture-1433888626.
- ↑ Gladstone, Philip. Synop Information for ORBM (40608) in Mosul, Iraq. Weather Quality Reporter (10 February 2014). Retrieved 16 June 2014.
- ↑ UNSD Demographic Statistics. United Nations Statistics Division 1987.
Other websites
Media related to Mosul at Wikimedia Commons- ninava-explorer Archived 2017-06-22 at the Wayback Machine
- Iraq Image – Mosul Satellite Observation Archived 2012-12-16 at Archive.today
- Detailed map of Mosul by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, from lib.utexas.edu
- ArchNet.org. Mosul. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Retrieved 2014-05-29.
