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الموصل | |
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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) |
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. More than a million people lived there when Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant conquered it in 2014. In 2017 the Iraqi Army with help from Kurdish Peshmerga troops and other militias took the city back.
Further reading
- Published in the 19th century
- Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Mosul", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse, https://archive.org/stream/newuniversalgaze00morsrich#page/494/mode/1up
- "Mosul". Edinburgh Gazetteer (2nd ed.). Edinburgh: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. 1829. https://books.google.com/books?id=dvFCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA470.
- Josiah Conder (1834), "Mosul", Dictionary of Geography, Ancient and Modern, London: T. Tegg, https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofgeog00cond#page/444/mode/2up
- Charles Wilson, ed. (1895), "Mosul", Handbook for Travellers in Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Persia, etc., London: John Murray,
, https://books.google.com/books?id=icy5QKym2BoC&pg=PA294
- Edward Balfour, ed. (1871). "Mosul". Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia (2nd ed.). Madras. https://archive.org/stream/cyclopaediaofind02balfuoft#page/990/mode/2up.
- Published in the 20th century
- "Mosul", Palestine and Syria (5th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1912, https://books.google.com/books?id=BykoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA426
- "Mosul". Encyclopaedia of Islam. E.J. Brill. 1934. p. 609+. https://books.google.com/books?id=fWNpIGNFz0IC&pg=PA609.
- Jacqueline Griffin (1996), "Mosul", in Trudy Ring, Middle East and Africa, International Dictionary of Historic Places, Routledge,
- Published in the 21st century
- C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Mosul". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill.
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- Michael R.T. Dumper; Bruce E. Stanley, eds. (2008), "Mosul", Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, Santa Barbara, USA: ABC-CLIO,
References
- ↑ "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 (10 February 2014). "Synop Information for ORBM (40608) in Mosul, Iraq". http://weather.gladstonefamily.net/site/ORBM. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
- ↑ "UNSD Demographic Statistics". United Nations Statistics Division 1987. http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3A240.
Other websites
Media related to Mosul at Wikimedia Commons
- ninava-explorer
- Iraq Image – Mosul Satellite Observation
- 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. http://archnet.org/library/places/one-place.jsp?place_id=1944.