Iraq
Nineveh
Al-Hamdaniya District

Nineveh

Nineveh was an ancient Near Eastern city of , located in the modern-day city of in northern . It is located on the eastern bank of the River and was the capital and largest city of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: ancient Assyrian city, capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
  • Also known as: “Nīnawá”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Great Mosque of al-Nuri and Bash Tapia Castle.

Ruins
Photo: Ennolenze, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , also known as the Nouri Mosque, is a Sunni in , in the of , famous for its leaning minaret, which gave the city its nickname "the hunchback". is situated 3½ km southwest of Nineveh.

Ruins
Photo: Eng Omer Akram, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, also known as Bashtabiya Castle or Pashtabia Castle, is a ruined 12th-century castle located on the western bank of the river, forming part of the city wall of , Iraq. is situated 3½ km west of Nineveh.

Place of worship
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The also known as the name of the Latin Church, is a Catholic church in the centre of , in northern . Built in the 1870s by the Dominican Fathers, it was especially famous for its bell donated by the Empress Eugenia de Montijo, for which it was sometimes called the Clock Church. is situated 3½ km southwest of Nineveh.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mosul.

Photo: Abdulsalam Al Dabbagh, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a city in 's Northwestern region, and is the country's second largest city by population. Its religious makeup is one of the most diverse in the country.

Nineveh

Latitude
36.35709° or 36° 21′ 26″ north
Longitude
43.1598° or 43° 9′ 35″ east
Elevation
221 metres (725 feet)
Open location code
8H859545+RW
Open­Street­Map ID
way 202644722
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
92878
Wiki­data ID
Q5680
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Nineveh” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Nineve”
  • Afrikaans: “Ninevé”
  • Amharic: “ነነዌ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Νινευή”
  • Arabic: “مدينة نينوى”
  • Arabic: “نينوى (مدينة)”
  • Arabic: “نينوى (مدينه)”
  • Arabic: “نينوى”
  • Armenian: “Նինվե”
  • Asturian: “Nínive”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nineviya”
  • Bashkir: “Ниневия”
  • Basque: “Ninive”
  • Belarusian: “Ніневія”
  • Belarusian: “Нінэвія”
  • Bengali: “নিনেভেহ”
  • Bosnian: “Niniva”
  • Breton: “Ninive”
  • Bulgarian: “Ниневия”
  • Burmese: “နင်နီဗေး”
  • Catalan: “Nínive”
  • Cebuano: “Ninive”
  • Central Kurdish: “نەینەوا”
  • Chinese: “尼尼微”
  • Chuvash: “Ниневи”
  • Croatian: “Niniva”
  • Czech: “Ninive”
  • Danish: “Nineve”
  • Danish: “Ninive”
  • Dutch: “Ninive”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نينوى”
  • Esperanto: “Ninivo”
  • Estonian: “Ninive”
  • Finnish: “Ninive”
  • French: “Ninive”
  • Galician: “Nínive”
  • Georgian: “ნინევია”
  • German: “Ninive”
  • Greek: “Νινευη”
  • Greek: “Νινευή”
  • Greek: “Νινευί”
  • Hebrew: “נינוה”
  • Hindi: “निनवेह”
  • Hindi: “निनावा”
  • Hindi: “नीनवे”
  • Hungarian: “Ninive”
  • Icelandic: “Níneve”
  • Indonesian: “Niniwe”
  • Irish: “Nineveh”
  • Italian: “Ninive”
  • Japanese: “クユンジク”
  • Japanese: “ニネヴェ”
  • Kazakh: “Ниневия”
  • Korean: “니네베”
  • Kurdish: “Nînewa”
  • Latin: “Ninive”
  • Latvian: “Ninīve”
  • Lithuanian: “Ninevija”
  • Macedonian: “Ниневија”
  • Macedonian: “Нинива”
  • Malagasy: “Ninive”
  • Malayalam: “നിനവേ”
  • Marathi: “निनेवे”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ninive”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ninive”
  • Norwegian: “Ninive”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Niniva”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ninive”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܢܝܢܘܐ”
  • Persian: “نینوا”
  • Polish: “Niniwa”
  • Portuguese: “Nínive”
  • Romanian: “Ninive”
  • Russian: “Ниневия”
  • Rusyn: “Нініве”
  • Sardinian: “Ninive”
  • Scots: “Nineveh”
  • Serbian: “Нинива”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Niniva”
  • Slovak: “Ninive”
  • Slovenian: “Ninive”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نینوا”
  • Spanish: “Ninive”
  • Spanish: “Nínive”
  • Swahili: “Ninawi”
  • Swedish: “Nineve”
  • Swiss German: “Ninive”
  • Tagalog: “Nineveh”
  • Tagalog: “Ninive”
  • Tamil: “நினிவே”
  • Thai: “นิเนเวห์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Ninive”
  • Turkish: “Ninova”
  • Ukrainian: “Ніневія”
  • Urdu: “نینوا”
  • Uzbek: “Nineviya”
  • Vietnamese: “Nineveh”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ninibe”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ninive”
  • Welsh: “Ninefeh”
  • Western Panjabi: “نینوا”
  • Wu Chinese: “尼尼微”
  • Yue Chinese: “尼尼微”

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