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Baghdad (Arabic: بغداد Baġdād) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, with which it is coterminous. Having a municipal population estimated between 5 and 7.5 million, it is the largest city in Iraq and one of the two largest in the Arab...
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Al-Qa'im (القائم) is an Iraqi town located nearly 400 km northwest of Baghdad near the Syrian border and situated along the Euphrates River, and located in the Al Anbar Governorate. It has a population of about 25,000 and is the centre of the Al-Qa...
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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) 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 a northern...
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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 Sunni Arab 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...
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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 was a city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 mi) south of Baghdad. All that remains of the original ancient famed city of Babylon today is a...
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| x Halabja |
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Halabja (Kurdish:ههڵهبجه or Helepçe), is an Iraqi town in a majority Kurdish area of Iraq about 150 miles (240 km) northeast of Baghdad and 8-10 miles from the Iranian border.
The town lies at the base of what is often refered to as the greater...
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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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| x Basra |
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Al-Baṣrah (Arabic: البصرة; BGN: Al Basrah, also called 'Basorah) is the capital of Basra Province, Iraq, and had an estimated population of 3,800,200 as of 2009. Basra is also Iraq's main port, although it is incapable of deep water access, which...
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Mosul (Arabic: الموصل al-Mawṣil, Maṣlawī Arabic: al-Mōṣul, Assyrian: ܢܝܢܘܐ or Ninaweh, Kurdish: Mosul/Ninawa, Turkish: Musul) is a city in northern Iraq and the capital of the Ninawa Governorate, some 400 km (250 miles) northwest of Baghdad. The...
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| Ninawa Governorate | |||
| x Karbala |
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Karbala (Arabic: كربلاء; BGN: Al-Karbalā’; also spelled Karbala al-Muqaddasah) is a city in Iraq, located about 100 km (60 mi) southwest of Baghdad at 32.61°N, 44.08°E. In the time of Husayn ibn Alī's life, the place was also known as al-Ghadiriyah...
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| x Kirkuk |
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Kirkuk (also spelled Karkuk or Kerkuk), Arabic: كركوك, Syriac: ܐܪܦܗܐ, Kurdish: Kerkûk/کهرکووک , Turkish: Kerkük is a city in Iraq and capital of Kirkuk Governorate.
It is located at 35.47°N, 44.41°E, in the Iraqi governorate of Kirkuk, 250...
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| At-Ta'mim Governorate | |||
| x Kufa |
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Kufa (Arabic,الكوفة al-Kūfah) is a city in Iraq, about 170 km south of Baghdad, and 10 km northeast of Najaf. It is located on the banks of the Euphrates River. The estimated population in 2003 was 110,000.
Along with Samarra, Karbala, Kadhimiya and...
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| x Tikrit |
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Tikrit (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 administrative...
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| Salah ad Din Governorate | |||
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Fallujah (Arabic: الفلوجة; sometimes transliterated as Falluja, Fallouja, or Falowja, Aramaic: Pumbeidtha) is a city in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar, located roughly 69 kilometers (43 miles) west of Baghdad on the Euphrates. Fallujah dates from...
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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 south of Baghdad. Its estimated population in 2008 is 900,600 people. It is the capital of Najaf Governorate. It is one of the holiest cities of Shia Islām and the center of Shia...
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| Najaf Governorate | |||
| x Kut |
Al-Kūt (Arabic: الكوت; BGN: Al Kūt; also spelled Kut-Al-Imara or Kut El Amara) is a city in eastern Iraq, on the left bank of the Tigris River, about 100 miles south east of Baghdad. As of 2003 the estimated population is about 374,000 people. It...
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| x Al Hillah |
Al-Hillah (Arabic: الحلة; BGN: Al Ḩillah; also spelled Hillah or Hilla) is a city in central Iraq on the river Euphrates, 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad, with an estimated population of 364,700 in 1998. It is the capital of Babil province and...
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| Babil Governorate | |||
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Arbil (also written Erbil or Irbil) (Kurdish: ھەولێر, Hewlêr, anglicized Hawler; Arabic: اربيل, Syriac: ܐܪܒܝܠ, Arbel) is believed to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and is the third-largest city in Iraq after Baghdad...
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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 eastern Iraq, south of Kurdish regions. It is located at 34.3°N, 45.4°E in the Diyala Governorate, near the Iranian border on a tributary of...
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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 population was 250,000 in 2005.
The city of Samawah is the modern capital of the Al Muthanna Governorate. The city is located...
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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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Iskandariya (إسكندرية, 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 Great (Iskander in...
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| Babil Governorate | |||
| x Zakho |
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Zakho (Arabic: زاخو; Kurdish: Zaxo,زاخو or Zaco) is a district and a town in Iraqi Kurdistan located a few kilometers from the Iraqi-Turkish border.
Zakho is a province of the Dohuk Governorate. The city has 600,000 inhabitants. It may have...
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| Dahuk Governorate | |||
| x Hassuna |
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Hassuna or Tell Hassuna is an ancient Mesopotamian site situated in Iraq, south of Mosul.
Excavations were initiated at Hassuna in the 1930s by British archaeologist Seton Lloyd who worked closely with the Oriental Institute in Chicago.
By around...
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| x Ar Rutba |
Ar Rutbah (Arabic: الرطبة, also known as Rutba, Rutbah, or Ar Rutba) is a 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 pipeline....
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| x Aqrah |
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Akre, is a city and district in the Ninewa Governorate, 120 km from the Dahuk Governorate. Defend International President, Widad Akrawi and the Kurdish film director, Hiner Saleem were born in this city. The Iraqi Ambassador to Vienna, Tariq Aqrawi...
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| x Muqdadiyah |
Muqdadiyah (Arabic: المقدادية) (also transliterated Al-Muqdadiyah, Muqdadia, Miqdadiyah) is a city in the Diyala Governorate of Iraq.
This city was a part of the Persian Sassanid Empire and had the Persian name Shahraban, meaning the satrap. The...
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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-Tamim 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 (Assyrian: ܐܪܡܘܬܐ; 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 name Armota comes from the Syriac language, "Ar" meaning "land...
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| x Hezany |
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Hezany is an Assyrian village in the Iraqi providence 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 a 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 cold winds...
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| x Dawodiya |
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Dawodiya is a Kurdish and 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...
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| x Dehi |
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Dehi 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 followers of Church of...
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| x Avzrog |
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Avzrog (أفزروك in Arabic,Avzarok in Kurdish) 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 language; av - water...
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| x Tel Skuf |
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Tel Skuf (Syriac: ܬܠ ܝܣܩܘܦܐ - Telassqepa) is located approximately 19 miles north of Mosul. Its population is estimated at 7,000, the vast majority being Chaldeans. Tel Skuf used to be famous for making pottery and used to be the main source for...
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| x Baqofah |
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Baqofa (also, Baqofah or Bakofa or Bakopa or Baqopa) (Syriac: ܒܝܬ ܩܘܦܐ) is a Chaldean village in northern Iraq located near Batnaya. The village's Aramaic name may derive from "Beth Qopa" or "Beth Qofa", signifying either the "House of Rods" or ...
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| x Bartella |
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Bartella (Aramaic: ܒܪܛܠܐ,Arabic,برطلّة) is an Iraqi- Chaldoassyrian town located less than 13 miles east of Mosul, Iraq. The name Bartella is of Assyrian Syriac origin, but its meaning is not fully agreed on by the historians. While Joseph Ghanima...
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| x Batnaya |
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Batnaya is an Assyrian village located 14 miles north of Nineveh (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" meaning "The House of...
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| x Ankawa |
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Ankawa (Aramaic: ܥܢܟܒܐ, Arabic:عنكاوا, ‘Ankāwā), is an Iraqi town of about 20,000 people, in practice a suburb of Arbil, Erbil Governorate in northern Iraq. The town is predominantly Assyrian, comprising mostly adherents of the Chaldean Catholic...
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| x Bakhdida |
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Bakhdida (Syriac: ܒܓܕܝܕܐ, Arabic:بخديدا or قره قوش), also known as Al-Hamdaniya Municipality, is an Assyrian town in the northern Iraq Ninawa Governorate, located about 32 km southeast of the city of Mosul amid agricultural lands, close to the ruins...
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| Ninawa Governorate | |||
| x Dashqotan |
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Dashqotan (Syriac: ܕܐܫܩܘܬܐܢ) 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 situated along the Euphrates River on the Syrian border. Traditionally housing as many as 300,000, it currently has only approximately 15,000 residents, chiefly Sunnis.
This city in the Al Anbar region of...
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| x Tel Keppe |
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Tel Keppe (also spelled Tel Keipeh ܬܠ ܟܦܐ in Syriac; TalKayf or Tel Kaif تل كيف in Arabic), one of the largest Assyrian (Chaldean-rite) towns in Iraq, is located in the Ninawa Governorate, less than 8 miles North East of Mosul (Nineveh) in northern...
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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.
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| x Balawat |
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Balawat is a village in Northern Iraq, 25 km (15 miles) southeast from the city of Mosul. It is the site of the ancient Assyrian city of Imgur-Enlil.
The city of Imgur-Enlil was founded by the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II (884-859 BC). It lay 10...
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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" .
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| x Rowanduz |
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The town Rawanduz (Kurdish: Rwandiz, also known as Rawandows, Rewanduz, Rawandouz and Ruwandiz) is located in the sub-district of Soran, in the Erbil Governorate of Iraqi Kurdistan, close to the Iranian border.
The name of the city derives from...
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| x Wasit |
Wasit (Arabic,واسط) is a place in Wasit Governorate, south east of Kut in eastern Iraq.
During Ottoman times, it was the head city of the sanjak of Wasit.
To quote UNESCO:
Wasit is an Islamic city built in the last quarter of the first Hijri century...
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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) is the capital of Iraq's Diyala Governorate.
The city is located some 50 km (30 miles) to the northeast of Baghdad, on the Diyala River, just outside Iraq's so-called Sunni...
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