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In its current Arabic form and spelling (الموصل), the term Mosul (or rather Mawsil) means "linking point", or, loosely, "Junction City".On the city's eastern side are the ruins of the ancient city of Nineveh, and Assyrians still call the entire city Nineveh (or Ninweh).
Its ruins lie across the river from the historical city center of Mosul. The two main tells , or mound-ruins, within the walls are Tell Kuyunjiq and Tell Nabī Yūnus , site of a shrine to Jonah . According to the Hebrew Bible and the Quran , Jonah was a prophet who preached to Nineveh.
He saw the gloriously skewed al-Hadba minaret, known as the "hunchback", which had been emblematic of Mosul for hundreds of years, in ruins. "It was like a ghost town," he says. "Dead bodies all ...
Qara Saray (قرهسرتي) Qara Saray, meaning “The Black Palace,” was a palace complex in Mosul located on the west bank of the Tigris River.It was built by Badr al-Din Lu’lu (died 1259), mamluk emir of the Zengid dynasty, who ruled what is now northern Iraq during the thirteenth century, and who had a significant long-term impact on the history of Mosul.
It was the simple night-time act of watering flowers on his street in Mosul's Old City that made Saqr Zakaria stop and think about just how safe this last bastion of Islamic State militants had ...
When ISIS took over Mosul in 2014, the maternity hospital remained open -- and it continues to serve mothers and babies even in its current state. New life amid the ruins of Mosul's maternity hospital
The ruins of the castle were an archaeological site, [3] and were also significant as being one of the few surviving parts of Mosul's walls. [4] [5] The castle was a landmark and a symbol of Mosul's identity, [6] and it was popular with tourists from other parts of Iraq and neighbouring countries. [7] It became neglected after the invasion of ...
[65] The city lies 290 km (180 mi) northwest of Baghdad and 110 km (68 mi) southwest of Mosul. On 7 March 2015, various sources including Iraqi officials reported that IS had begun demolishing the ruins of Hatra. [67] Video released by IS the next month showed destruction of the monuments. [68]