Mosul
Mosul (Arabic: الموصل <span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">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.
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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 |
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| • 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] |
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| Time zone | UTC+3 (AST) |
Further reading
- Published in the 19th century
- Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Mosul", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
- "Mosul". Edinburgh Gazetteer (2nd ed.). Edinburgh: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. 1829.
- Josiah Conder (1834), "Mosul", Dictionary of Geography, Ancient and Modern, London: T. Tegg
- Charles Wilson, ed. (1895), "Mosul", Handbook for Travellers in Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Persia, etc., London: John Murray, ISBN 9780524062142, OCLC 8979039
- Edward Balfour, ed. (1871). "Mosul". Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia (2nd ed.). Madras.
- Published in the 20th century
- "Mosul", Palestine and Syria (5th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1912
- "Mosul". Encyclopaedia of Islam. E.J. Brill. 1934. p. 609+. ISBN 9789004097926.
- Jacqueline Griffin (1996), "Mosul", in Trudy Ring (ed.), Middle East and Africa, International Dictionary of Historic Places, Routledge, ISBN 9781884964039
- Published in the 21st century
- C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Mosul". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. ISBN 978-9004153882.
- Michael R.T. Dumper; Bruce E. Stanley, eds. (2007), "Mosul", Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, Santa Barbara, USA: ABC-CLIO (published 2008), ISBN 978-1576079195
Mosul Media
Mosul Museum is the second largest museum in Iraq after the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad. It contains ancient Mesopotamian artifacts, mainly Assyrian.
The Shrine of Imam Yahya Abu Al Qasim
Nineveh - Mashki Gate
Dair Mar Elia south of Mosul, Iraq's oldest monastery of the Assyrian Church of the East, dating from the 6th century. It was destroyed by ISIS in 2014.
The Blacas ewer, made by Shuja' ibn Man'a in Mosul in 1232, is one of the most famous brass pieces from Mosul.
Conquest of Mosul (Nineveh) by Mustafa Pasha in 1631, a Turkish soldier in the foreground holding a severed head. L., C. (Stecher) 1631 -1650
Map of Mosul in 1778, by Carsten Niebuhr
A coffee house in Mosul, 1914.
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 (10 February 2014). "Synop Information for ORBM (40608) in Mosul, Iraq". Weather Quality Reporter. 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. Archived from the original on 2012-12-10. Retrieved 2014-05-29.
