Nimrud
Nimrud is an ancient Assyrian city located in Iraq, 30 kilometres south of the city of Mosul, and 5 kilometres south of the village of Selamiyah, in the Nineveh Plains in Upper Mesopotamia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: ancient Assyrian city
- Also known as: “Athar Nimrud”, “Aţlāl Nimrūd”, “Calah”, “Kalakh”, “Kalhu”, “Kalkhu”, “Namrūd”, and “Nimrud Īshān”
Nimrud
- Categories: ancient city, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Al-Hamdaniya District, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Nimrud” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “اثار نمرود”
- Arabic: “النمرود”
- Arabic: “كالح”
- Arabic: “كالخ”
- Arabic: “كالخو”
- Arabic: “مدينة نمرود”
- Aragonese: “Nimrud”
- Armenian: “Նիմրուդ”
- Azerbaijani: “Nimrud”
- Bashkir: “Калах”
- Bashkir: “Калху”
- Bashkir: “Калһу”
- Bashkir: “Кальху”
- Bashkir: “Нимруд”
- Basque: “Nimrud”
- Belarusian: “Німруд”
- Bosnian: “Nimrud”
- Bulgarian: “Нимруд”
- Catalan: “Calah”
- Catalan: “Kalakh”
- Catalan: “Kalhu”
- Catalan: “Kalkhu”
- Catalan: “Nimrud”
- Cebuano: “Āthār Nimrūd”
- Central Kurdish: “کالێ”
- Chinese: “卡尔胡”
- Chinese: “卡拉城”
- Chinese: “卡拉赫”
- Chinese: “宁穆禄”
- Chinese: “尼姆魯德”
- Chinese: “尼姆鲁德”
- Chuvash: “Нимруд”
- Croatian: “Kalah”
- Czech: “Kalach”
- Czech: “Kalchu”
- Czech: “Nimrud”
- Czech: “Nimrúd”
- Danish: “Nimrud”
- Dutch: “Calah”
- Dutch: “Kalach”
- Dutch: “Kalah”
- Dutch: “Kalcha”
- Dutch: “Kalchoe”
- Dutch: “Kalhu”
- Dutch: “Nimroed”
- Dutch: “Nimrud”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كالح”
- Esperanto: “Kalaĥ”
- Esperanto: “Kalĥu”
- Esperanto: “Nimrud”
- Faroese: “Nimrud”
- Finnish: “Nimrud”
- French: “Kalhu”
- French: “Kalhû”
- French: “Kalkhu”
- French: “Nimroud”
- French: “Nimrud”
- Georgian: “ქალხუ”
- German: “Kalchu”
- German: “Kalhu”
- German: “Kalḥu”
- German: “Kalḫu”
- German: “Nimrod”
- German: “Nimrud”
- Greek: “Νιμρούντ”
- Hebrew: “כלח”
- Hebrew: “תל נמרוד”
- Hindi: “निमरुद”
- Hungarian: “Kalhu”
- Indonesian: “Calah”
- Indonesian: “Kalah”
- Indonesian: “Kalakh”
- Indonesian: “Kalhu”
- Indonesian: “Nimrud”
- Irish: “Nimrud”
- Italian: “Nimrud”
- Japanese: “カラハ”
- Japanese: “ニムルード”
- Japanese: “ニムルド”
- Korean: “님로드”
- Korean: “님루드”
- Latin: “Chale”
- Latin: “Nimrud”
- Latvian: “Nimrūda”
- Macedonian: “Нимруд”
- Malay: “Nimrud”
- Marathi: “निमरुद”
- Marathi: “निमरूद”
- Mingrelian: “ქალხუ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nimrud”
- Norwegian: “Nimrud”
- Persian: “نمرود”
- Persian: “نیمرود (کلخو)”
- Polish: “Kalach”
- Polish: “Kalchu”
- Polish: “Kalhu”
- Polish: “Nimrud”
- Portuguese: “Nimrud”
- Portuguese: “Ninrude”
- Romanian: “Kalkhu”
- Romanian: “Nimrud”
- Russian: “Калах”
- Russian: “Калху”
- Russian: “Кальху”
- Russian: “Нимруд”
- Rusyn: “Німруд”
- Scots: “Nimrud”
- Serbian: “Nimrud”
- Serbian: “Нимруд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kalah”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kalhu”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nimrud”
- Slovenian: “Nimrud”
- Spanish: “Calach”
- Spanish: “Kalhu”
- Spanish: “Kalkhu”
- Spanish: “Nimrud”
- Swedish: “Kalhu”
- Swedish: “Nimrud”
- Swiss German: “Kalach”
- Tagalog: “Nimrud”
- Tamil: “நிம்ருத்”
- Tosk Albanian: “Kalach”
- Turkish: “Kalah”
- Turkish: “Nimrud”
- Turkish: “Nimrūd”
- Ukrainian: “Німруд”
- Urdu: “نمردو”
- Vietnamese: “Nimrud”
- Welsh: “Nimrud”
- Welsh: “Nimrwd”
- Wu Chinese: “尼姆鲁德”
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