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Baghdad (Arabic: بغداد, Baġdād, IPA: [bæɣˈdæːd]) is the capital of Republic of Iraq, as well as the coterminous Baghdad Province. The population of Baghdad as of 2011 is approximately 7,216,040, making it the largest city in Iraq, the second...
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| x Al-Qa'im |
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Al-Qa'im (Arabic: القائم) is an Iraqi town on the Euphrates River in Al-Anbar province, close to the Syrian border.
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| x Baghdadi |
Baghdadi is a city in western Iraq. It is located near the former Iraqi Airforce base of Al Asad, currently a major base for Coalition Forces in Iraq.
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| x Hīt |
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Hīt or Heet (Arabic: هيت) is a city in al-Anbar province, Iraq. Hīt lies northwest of Ramadi, the provincial capital, in the Sunni Triangle.
The small city of Hīt is one of a string of Sunni population centers along the Euphrates valley in Anbar...
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| x Sarsing |
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Sarsing or Sarsink (Syriac: ܣܪܣܢܓ) is an Assyrian village in the Iraqi providence of Dohuk. The name "Sarsing" derives from the Kurdish for "above (or) or upon chest". The name came from the location of the village, which is the highest altitude of...
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| x Balad |
Balad (Arabic: بلد) is a city (80 kilometres) north of Baghdad in the Salah ad Din Governorate Iraq. It is located within the borders of the so-called Sunni Triangle; however, Balad is a primarily Shiite town of approximately 100,000. It is the...
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| x Hawija |
Hawija (Arabic: الحويجة,Al Hawyjah) is a town near Kirkuk north of Baghdad.
Hawijah is in the Al-Tamim province of Iraq and approximately 30 miles south of Kirkuk. There are approximately 450,000 people in and around Hawijah with an estimated 80%...
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| x Buhriz |
Buhriz is an Iraqi town of about 40,000 located 25 miles north of Baghdad and 6 miles south of the major city of Baquba. The town of Buhriz is heavily agricultural, located on fertile land along the Diyala River and engaged in the cultivation of...
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| x Babylon |
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Babylon (Arabic: بابل, Babil; Akkadian: Bābili(m); Sumerian logogram: KÁ.DINGIR.RA; Hebrew: בָּבֶל, Bābel; Greek: Βαβυλών, Babylōn) was an Akkadian city-state (founded in 1867 BC by an Amorite dynasty) of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which...
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| x Halabja |
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Halabja (Kurdish: ههڵهبجه Helebce), is a Kurdish town in Northern Iraq, located about 150 miles (240 km) north-east of Baghdad and 8–10 miles from the Iranian border.
The town lies at the base of what is often referred to as the greater Hewraman...
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| x Umm Qasr |
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Umm Qasr (Arabic: أم قصر, also transliterated as : Um-qasir, Um-qasser), is a port city in southern Iraq. It stands on the canalised Khawr az-Zubayr, part of the Khawr Abd Allah estuary which leads to the Persian Gulf. It is separated from the...
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| Basra Governorate | |||
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Basra (Arabic: البصرة; BGN: Al Baṣrah) is the capital of Basra Governorate, in southern Iraq near Kuwait and Iran. It had an estimated population of two million as of 2009. Basra is also Iraq's main port, although it does not have deep water access...
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| Basra Governorate | |||
| x Mosul |
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Mosul (Arabic: الموصل al-Mawṣil; North Mesopotamian Arabic: el-Mōṣul; Syriac: ܢܝܢܘܐ Nînwe; Kurdish: Mûsil/Nînewe; Turkish: Musul), is a city in northern Iraq and the capital of the Nineveh Province, some 400 km (250 mi) northwest of Baghdad. The...
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| Ninawa Governorate | |||
| x Karbala |
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Karbala (Arabic: كربلاء; BGN: Al-Karbalā’; also referred to as Karbalā' al-Muqaddasah) is a city in Iraq, located about 100 km (62 mi) southwest of Baghdad. Karbala is the capital of Karbala Governorate, and has an estimated population of 572,300...
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| Karbala Governorate | |||
| x Kirkuk |
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Kirkuk (also spelled Karkuk or Kerkuk, Arabic: كركوك karkūk, Kurdish: Kerkûk/کهرکووک, Syriac: ܟܪܟ ܣܠܘܟ karḵ sluḵ, Turkish: Kerkük) is a city in Iraq and the capital of Kirkuk Governorate.
It is located in the Iraqi governorate of Kirkuk, 236...
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| At-Ta'mim Governorate | |||
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Kufa (Arabic,الكوفة al-Kūfah) is a city in Iraq, about 170 kilometres (110 mi) south of Baghdad, and 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) northeast of Najaf. It is located on the banks of the Euphrates River. The estimated population in 2003 was 110,000.
Along...
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| x Tikrit |
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Tikrit (Arabic: تكريت, Tikrīt also transliterated as Takrit or Tekrit) is a town in Iraq, located 140 km northwest of Baghdad on the Tigris river (at 34.61°N, 43.68°E). The town, with an estimated population in 2002 of about 260,000 is the...
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| Salah ad Din Governorate | |||
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Fallujah (Arabic: الفلوجة, ʾal-Falūǧah, IPA: [ʔalfaˈluːdʒah]; Aramaic: Pumbeidtha - פומבדיתא) is a city in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar, located roughly 69 kilometers (43 mi) west of Baghdad on the Euphrates. Fallujah dates from Babylonian times...
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| Al Anbar Governorate | |||
| x Najaf |
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Najaf (Arabic: النجف; BGN: An Najaf) is a city in Iraq about 160 km (roughly 100 miles) south of Baghdad. Its estimated population in 2008 is 560,000 people. It is the capital of Najaf Governorate. It is widely considered the third holiest city of...
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| Najaf Governorate | |||
| x Kut |
Al-Kūt (Arabic: الكوت; BGN: Al Kūt; also spelled Kut-Al-Imara or Kut El Amara, Kurdish: Kût) is a kurdish city in eastern Iraq, on the left bank of the Tigris River, about 160 kilometres (100 mi) south east of Baghdad. As of 2003 the estimated...
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| x Al Hillah |
Hillah (Arabic: الحلة), also spelled Hilla or Al Hillah (BGN: Al Ḩillah) is a city in central Iraq on the Hilla branch of the Euphrates River, 100 km (62 mi) south of Baghdad. The population is estimated at 364,700 in 1998. It is the capital of...
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| Babil Governorate | |||
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Erbil/Hewlêr (Hewlêr in Roman-alphabet Kurdish) (also written Arbil, or Irbil) (Akkadian: Arba-ilu; Arabic: اربيل Arbīl; Kurdish: ههولێر Hewlêr; Sumerian: Urbilum; Syriac-Aramaic: ܐܪܒܝܠ Arbaelo) is, with a population of approximately 1.3 million ...
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| Arbil Governorate | |||
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‘Ukbarâ (عكبرا) was a medieval city on the left bank of the Tigris between Samarra and Baghdad. The Tigris has changed course since, and its ruins now lie some distance from the river. Its name may possibly have inspired the "Uqbar" of Borges' short...
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| x Khanaqin |
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Khanaqin (Kurdish خانه قين,Xaneqîn Arabic خانقين, also transliterated as Khanakin, Xanaqin) is a city in Iraq. It is located at 34.3°N, 45.4°E in the Diyala Governorate, near the Iranian border on a tributary of the Diyala River. Khanaqin is the...
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| Diyala Governorate | |||
| x Baiji |
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Baiji (Arabic: بيجي; also spelled Bayji) is a city of about 200,000 inhabitants in northern Iraq some 130 miles north of Baghdad, on the main road to Mosul. It is a major industrial centre best known for its oil refinery, the biggest in Iraq and...
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| Ninawa Governorate | |||
| Salah ad Din Governorate | |||
| x Samawah |
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Samawah or As Samawah (Arabic language:السماوة ) is a city in Iraq, 280 kilometres (174 mi) southeast of Baghdad. .
The city of Samawah is the modern capital of the Al Muthanna Governorate. The city is located midway between Baghdad and Basra, at...
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| x Samarra |
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Sāmarrā (Arabic: سامَرّاء) is a city in Iraq. It stands on the east bank of the Tigris in the Salah ad-Din Governorate, 125 kilometers (78 mi) north of Baghdad and, in 2003, had an estimated population of 348,700.
Medieval Islamic writers believed...
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| Salah ad Din Governorate | |||
| x Abu Ghraib |
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The city of Abu Ghraib (Arabic: أبو غريب;Abū Ghurayb ) in the Baghdad Governorate of Iraq is located just west of Baghdad's city center, or northwest of Baghdad International Airport. It has a population of 189,000. The old road to Jordan passes...
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| Baghdad Governorate | |||
| x Iskandariya |
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Al-Iskandariya or Alexandria (الإسكندرية, also given as Iskandariyah, Iskanderiyah, Iskanderiya, Iskanderiyeh or Sikandariyeh or Al Askandariyah) is an ancient city in central Iraq, one of a number of towns in the Near East named after Alexander the...
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| Babil Governorate | |||
| x Zakho |
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Zakho (Kurdish: Zaxo, زاخو; Arabic: زاخو; Syriac-Aramaic: ܙܟܼܘ) is a district and a town in Northern Iraq located a few kilometers from the Iraqi-Turkish border.
Zakho is a province of the Dohuk Governorate. The city has 200,000 inhabitants. It may...
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| Dahuk Governorate | |||
| x Hassuna |
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Hassuna or Tell Hassuna is an ancient Mesopotamian site situated in what was to become ancient Assyria, and is now in the Ninawa Governorate of Iraq west of the Tigris river, south of Mosul and about 35 km southwest of the ancient Assyrian city of...
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| x Ar Rutba |
Ar Rutbah (Arabic: الرطبة, also known as Rutba, Rutbah, or Ar Rutba) is an Iraqi town in western Al Anbar province. The population is approximately 55,000. It occupies a strategic location on the Amman-Baghdad road, and the Mosul–Haifa oil pipeline...
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| x Aqrah |
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Aqrah (Kurdish Akrê, ئاکرێ; Syriac: ܥܩܪܐ ʻaqra) is a city and district in Iraq which is located in the Ninawa Governorate. The total area of the district is (6418) km2. It was formed in 1877 by the Ottoman Empire and the city of Aqrah became the...
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| x Muqdadiyah |
Muqdadiyah (Arabic: المقدادية) (also transliterated Al-Muqdadiyah, Muqdadia, Miqdadiyah) is a city in the Diyala Governorate of Iraq. The city is located at 33°58′43″N 44°56′13″E / 33.97861°N 44.93694°E / 33.97861; 44.93694, about 80 km...
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| x Nuzi |
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Nuzi (or Nuzu; Akkadian Gasur; modern Yorghan Tepe, Iraq) was an ancient Mesopotamian city southwest of Kirkuk in modern Al Ta'amim Governorate of Iraq, located near the Tigris river. The site consists of one medium sized multiperiod tell and two...
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| x Salman Pak |
Salman Pak (Arabic: سلمان باك ) is a city approximately 15 miles south of Baghdad near a peninsula formed by a broad eastward bend of the Tigris River. It is named after Salman the Persian, a companion of Muhammad who is buried there.
It is quite...
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| x Mahuza |
Mahuza (in Hebrew and Aramaic sources, particularly Jewish ones, Maḥuza) is the name given to the metropolis formed by Ctesiphon and Seleucia on opposite sides of the Tigris River. It was one of the cites of an early Babylonian Talmudic yeshiva,...
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| x Armota |
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Armota (Syriac: ܐܪܡܥܘܛܐ; Kurdish: Harmota) is an Assyrian village that is outside the town of Koy Sinjaq in the Iraqi governorate of Arbil. It is a two-hour drive from Sulaimaniyah.
The village is a remote farming hamlet within a rural portion of...
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| x Hezany |
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Hezany is an Assyrian village in the Iraqi province of Dohuk. Hezany is one of the seven remaining Assyrian villages in the Nahla valley, which is located on the border between Duhok and Nineveh. The small Khabour river crosses through Nahla and...
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| x Badarash |
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Badarash is an Assyrian village in the Iraqi providence of Dohuk. The village of Badarash is located at a distance of 1.5 kilometres from the centre of Sarsink. Its name is of Kurdish origin which means “The Black Air”. This is because of the heavy...
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| x Dawodiya |
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Dawodiya is an Assyrian village close to the Sapna valley in the Iraqi province of Dohuk. Gara Mount bounds the Sapna valley to south and Matean Mount to the north. The valley stretches 25 kilometres in length and varies from 5 to 10 kilometres wide...
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| x Dehi |
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Dehi (Syriac: ܪܗܐ) is an Assyrian Christian village located at the western end of Mateena Mountains and in the valley that separates Sapna and Barwali Bala districts, in the Dohuk Governorate of Iraq. Most residents of village Dehi were the...
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| x Avzrog |
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Avzrog (Arabic: أفزروك, Syriac: ܐܒܙܪܘܓ, Kurdish: Avzarok) is a village in the Iraqi province of Dohuk. The village is split into two areas: one populated by Armenians and the other by Assyrians.
The name of the village comes from the Kurdish...
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| x Tel Skuf |
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Tel Isqof (Tel Eskof or Tel Skuf) (Syriac: ܬܠܐ ܙܩܝܦܐ Tilla Zqeepa; Arabic: تللسقف) is an Assyrian town, with a population of 10,000 most of whose inhabitants are members of the Chaldean Catholic Church. It is located in in northern Iraq located...
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| x Baqofah |
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Baqofa (also, Baqofah or Bakofa or Bakopa or Baqopa) (Syriac: ܒܝܬ ܩܘܦܐ, Běţ Ợopa) is an Assyrian village in northern Iraq located near Batnaya. Most of its inhabitants are adherents of the Chaldean Catholic Church. The village's Aramaic name may...
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| x Bartella |
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Bartella (Syriac:ܒܪܛܠܐ, Arabic,برطلّة) is an Assyrian town located less than 13 miles east of Mosul, Iraq. The name Bartella is of Syriac origin, but its meaning is not fully agreed on by the historians. While Joseph Ghanima and al-Jawaliqy believe...
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| x Batnaya |
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Batnaya (Classical Syriac: ܒܬܢܝܐ) is an Assyrian village located 14 miles north of Mosul and around 3 miles north of Tel Keppe.
The name Batnaya is of Aramaic origin derived from either "Beth Tnyay" meaning "The House of Mud" or "Beth Tnaya"...
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| x Ankawa |
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Ankawa (Syriac: ܥܢܟܒܐ, Arabic:عنكاوا, ‘ankāwā, Kurdish:عهنكاوا), is an Iraqi Christian Assyrian town, most of whose inhabitants are members of the Chaldean Catholic Church. The town has about 40,000 people, in practice a suburb of Arbil, Erbil...
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| x Bakhdida |
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Bakhdida (Classical Syriac: ܒܓܕܝܕܐ, Arabic:بخديدا) IPA: [bɑχdɛːdə], also known as Baghdeda, Qaraqosh, Karakosh or Al-Hamdaniya, is an Assyrian town in the northern Iraq Ninawa Governorate, located about 32 km southeast of the city of Mosul amid...
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| Ninawa Governorate | |||
| x Dashqotan |
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Dashqotan (Syriac: ܕܫܩܘܬܢ) is a small Assyrian village located in northern Iraq, about 40 kilometers north of Mosul and 15 kilometers east of Alqosh. Dashqotan is bordered by four Assyrian villages: Aenbaqre, Karanjok, Perozawa and Germawe....
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| x Husaybah |
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Husaybah (Arabic: حسيبة) is an Iraqi city on the Euphrates river in Al-Anbar province, close to the Syrian border.
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| x Tel Keppe |
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Tel Keppe (also spelled Tel Keipeh) (Classical Syriac: ܬܠ ܟܐܦܐ Tal Kepe, Arabic: تل كيف Tal Kaif), is one of the largest historically Assyrian towns in Iraq. It is located in the Ninawa Governorate, less than 8 miles North East of Mosul (Nineveh)...
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| x Afak |
Afak (Arabic: عفك) is a town in Al Qadisyah Governorate of Iraq.
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| x Shamia |
Al Shamia(Arabic: الشامية) is a town in Al Qadisyah Governorate of Iraq
Shamia is also the name of a ferry in Bangladesh that sunk in Meghna River with around 600 people dead in the worst ferry disaster of the country.
Shamia is the Arabic word for...
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| x Balawat |
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Balawat (Syriac: ܒܝܬ ܠܒܬ, beṯ labat) is a historical location in Ninawa Governorate, Iraq, 25 km (16 mi) southeast from the city of Mosul and 4 km (2.5 mi) to the south of the modern Assyrian town of Bakhdida. It was the site of the ancient Neo...
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| x Barzinjah |
Barzinjah or Barzinja (Arabic: برزنجة) is a town in As Sulaymaniyah Governorate (muhafazat) of Iraq. Located at latitude : 35 32' 41", longitude : 45 41' 42" .
According to some sources, Mahmud Barzanji, who led the 1919 revolt against the British...
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| x Rowanduz |
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The town Rawandiz (Kurdish: Rewandiz, also transcribed as Ruwanduz) is a city of Iraq, which located in the sub-district of Soran, in the Arbil Governorate of Iraqi Kurdistan, close to the Iranian border.
The population in 2003 was 95,089. The...
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| x Wasit |
Wasit (Arabic,واسط) is a place in Wasit Governorate, south east of Kut in eastern Iraq.
The city was built by al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf on the west bank of the Tigris across the river from the historical city of Kashkar.
During Ottoman times, it was the...
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| x Al-Karābilah |
Al-Karābilah or Krabilah as it is sometimes called, is a town in Iraq, located at 34°23′1″N 41°1′51″E / 34.38361°N 41.03083°E / 34.38361; 41.03083 near the Syrian border in an area of high ground.
During the Gulf War, the area was hit by...
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| x Baqubah |
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Baqubah (Arabic: بعقوبة; BGN: Ba‘qūbah; also spelled Baquba and Baqouba, all meaning "Jacob's house") is the capital of Iraq's Diyala Governorate.
The city is located some 50 km (31 mi) to the northeast of Baghdad, on the Diyala River. In 2003 it...
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| Diyala Governorate | |||
