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Mosul (then the Assyrian town of Mepsila, founded by the former inhabitants out of the ruins of their former capital) later succeeded Nineveh as the Tigris bridgehead of the road that linked Assyria and Anatolia with the short-lived Median Empire and succeeding Achaemenid Empire (546–332 BC), where it was a part of the geopolitical province ...
The ailing Mosul Dam is a persistent threat to Nineveh as well as the city of Mosul. This is in no small part due to years of disrepair (in 2006, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers cited it as the most dangerous dam in the world), the cancellation of a second dam project in the 1980s to act as flood relief in case of failure, and occupation by ...
Eski Mosul (Arabic: أسكي موصل) is a village in Mosul District, in present-day northern Iraq. Located just downstream from the Mosul Dam , Eski Mosul is the site of the ancient and medieval city of Balad .
Samarra Archaeological City: Saladin Governorate: Cultural: (ii)(iii)(iv) 15,058 (37,210) 2007 Located on the Tigris, the Islamic city of Samarra was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate. It contains two of the largest mosques and several of the largest palaces in the Islamic world, in addition to being among the finest example of Abbasid-era ...
The ruins of the city lie 290 km (180 mi) northwest of Baghdad and 110 km (68 mi) southwest of Mosul. It is considered the richest archaeological site from the Parthian Empire known to date. [1] Hatra was a strongly fortified caravan city and capital of the small Arab Kingdom of Hatra, located between the Roman and Parthian/Sasanian Empires.
Its largest city and provincial capital is Mosul, which lies across the Tigris river from the ruins of ancient Nineveh. Before 1976, it was called Mosul Province and included the present-day Dohuk Governorate. [8] The second largest city is Tal Afar, which has an almost exclusively Turkmen population. [9]
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 ...
A map showing the administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire in 1317 Hijri, 1899 Gregorian, Including the Vilayet of Mosul and its Sanjaks. Map of subdivisions of Mosul Vilayet in 1907. Sanjaks of the vilayet and their capitals: [5] Sanjak of Mosul, Mosul; Sanjak of Shahrizor [6] (later renamed Sanjak of Kirkuk), [7]: 190 Kirkuk