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Coordinates: 36°20′N 43°08′E / 36.34°N 43.13°E
| Mosul- Nineveh الموصل | |
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  Mosul- Nineveh | |
| Country |
 Iraq |
| Governorate | Ninawa |
| District | Mosul |
| Population (2008) | |
| • Urban | 1,800,000 |
| Time zone | GMT +3 |
| Twin cities | |
| • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | United States |
Mosul (Arabic: الموصل al-Mawṣil; Syriac: ܢܝܢܘܐ Nînwe; Kurdish: Mûsil/Nînewe; Turkish: Musul) is a city in the north of Iraq. More than a million people live there.
Further reading
- Published in the 19th century
- Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Mosul", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse, http://www.archive.org/stream/newuniversalgaze00morsrich#page/494/mode/1up
- "Mosul". Edinburgh Gazetteer (2nd ed.). Edinburgh: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. 1829. http://books.google.com/books?id=dvFCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA470.
- Josiah Conder (1834), "Mosul", Dictionary of Geography, Ancient and Modern, London: T. Tegg, http://www.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,
, http://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. http://www.archive.org/stream/cyclopaediaofind02balfuoft#page/990/mode/2up.
- Published in the 20th century
- "Mosul", Palestine and Syria (5th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1912, http://books.google.com/books?id=BykoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA426
- "Mosul". Encyclopaedia of Islam. E.J. Brill. 1934. p. 609+. http://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,
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.
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