Al-Hamdaniya District
Qaraqosh is a city in the Nineveh Governorate, of Iraq located about 32 kilometres southeast of the city of Mosul and 60 kilometres west of Erbil amid agricultural lands, close to the ruins of the ancient Assyrian cities Kalhu and Nineveh.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 50,000 residents
- Description: place in Nineveh, Iraq
- Also known as: “Al Hamdaniya”, “Al Hamdaniyah”, “Al-Hamdaniya”, “Bakhdida”, “Qaḑā’ al Ḩamdānīyah”, “Qarah Qōsh”, “Qarah Qūsh”, “Qaraqosh”, “Qaraqush”, and “مركز قضاء الحمدانية”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Karamlesh and Balawat.
Karamlesh
Village
Karamlesh is a town in northern Iraq located less than 18 miles south east of Mosul. It is surrounded by many hills that along with it made up the historical Assyrian city of Kar-Mullissi, which means "the city of Mullissu" in Akkadian. Karamlesh is situated 5 km northeast of Al-Hamdaniya District.
Balawat
Village
Balawat is an archaeological site of the ancient Assyrian city of Imgur-Enlil, and modern village in Nineveh Province. It lies 25 kilometres southeast from the city of Mosul and 4 kilometres to the south of the modern Assyrian town of Bakhdida. Balawat is situated 6 km southeast of Al-Hamdaniya District.
Al-Hamdaniya District
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Al-Hamdaniya District, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
36.271° or 36° 16′ 16″ northLongitude
43.3764° or 43° 22′ 35″ eastPopulation
50,000Elevation
274 metres (899 feet)Open location code
8H8579CG+CGOpenStreetMap ID
node 9101530177OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
92430Wikidata ID
Q2995584
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Al-Hamdaniya District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الحمدانية”
- Arabic: “بخديدا”
- Arabic: “بغديدا”
- Arabic: “بغديده”
- Arabic: “قرةقوش”
- Arabic: “قره قوش”
- Arabic: “قضاء الحمدانية”
- Armenian: “Բախտիդա”
- Azerbaijani: “Bəqdidə”
- Belarusian: “Бахдзіда”
- Bengali: “আল-হামদানিয়া”
- Bengali: “কারাকোশ”
- Bengali: “বকদিদা”
- Catalan: “Qaraqosh”
- Cebuano: “Al-Hamdaniya”
- Central Kurdish: “قەرەقووش”
- Chinese: “加拉格什”
- Czech: “Karakoš”
- Danish: “Bakhdida”
- Dutch: “Bakhdida”
- Dutch: “Qaraqosh”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بغديدا”
- Finnish: “Bagdida”
- French: “Bakhdida”
- German: “Bachdida”
- German: “Baghdida”
- Hebrew: “קראקוש”
- Irish: “Qaraqosh”
- Japanese: “アル＝ハムダニヤ”
- Japanese: “アル＝ハンダニヤ”
- Japanese: “カラコシュ”
- Japanese: “バクディーダ”
- Japanese: “バグディーダ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bakhdida”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bakhdida”
- Norwegian: “Bakhdida”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܓܕܝܕܐ”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܟܕܝܕܐ”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܚܡܕܐܢܝܐ”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܩܪܗ ܩܘܫ”
- Persian: “بغدیدا”
- Polish: “Al-Hamdanijja”
- Russian: “Бахдида”
- Serbian: “Бахдида”
- Slovenian: “Al Hamdanija”
- Slovenian: “Bahdida”
- Slovenian: “Karakoš”
- Spanish: “Bajdida”
- Swedish: “Bakhdida”
- Turkish: “Karakosh”
- Ukrainian: “Бахдіда”
- Urdu: “بغدیدہ”
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