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.
Photo: Chaldean, Public domain.- Type: Town with 50,000 residents
- Description: place in Nineveh, Iraq
- Also known as: “Al Hamdaniya”, “Al Hamdaniyah”, “Al-Hamdaniya”, “Bahdida”, “Bakhdida”, “Qaḑā’ al Ḩamdānīyah”, “Qarah Qōsh”, “Qarah Qūsh”, “Qaraqosh”, “Qaraqush”, “بخديدا”, “بغديده”, “قرةقوش”, “قره قوش”, “مركز قضاء الحمدانية”, “ܒܟܕܝܕܐ”, “ܚܡܕܐܢܝܐ”, “ܩܪܗ ܩܘܫ”, “আল-হামদানিয়া”, “বকদিদা”, “アル＝ハムダニヤ”, “アル＝ハンダニヤ”, “バクディーダ”, and “バグディーダ”
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. Karamlesh is situated 5 km northeast of Al-Hamdaniya District.
Balawat
Village
Balawat is an archaeological site of the ancient… 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″ north
Longitude
43.3764° or 43° 22′ 35″ east
Population
50,000
Elevation
274 metres (899 feet)
Open location code
8H8579CG+CG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Al-Hamdaniya District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الحمدانية”
- Arabic: “بغديدا”
- Arabic: “قضاء الحمدانية”
- Armenian: “Բախտիդա”
- Azerbaijani: “Bəqdidə”
- Belarusian: “Бахдзіда”
- Bengali: “কারাকোশ”
- 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: “カラコシュ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bakhdida”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bakhdida”
- Norwegian: “Bakhdida”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܓܕܝܕܐ”
- Persian: “بغدیدا”
- Polish: “Al-Hamdanijja”
- Russian: “Бахдида”
- Serbian: “Бахдида”
- Slovenian: “Al Hamdanija”
- Spanish: “Bajdida”
- Swedish: “Bakhdida”
- Turkish: “Karakosh”
- Ukrainian: “Бахдіда”
- Urdu: “بغدیدہ”
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