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.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: ancient Assyrian city
- Also known as: “Athar Nimrud”, “Aţlāl Nimrūd”, “Calach”, “Calah”, “Kalaĥ”, “Kalakh”, “Kalcha”, “Kalchoe”, “Kalhû”, “Kalĥu”, “Kalḥu”, “Kalḫu”, “Kalkhu”, “Namrūd”, “Nimrod”, “Nimroed”, “Nimrúd”, “Nimrūd”, “Nimrud Īshān”, “Nimrwd”, “Калах”, “Калху”, “Калһу”, “Кальху”, “Կալխու”, “Քալախ”, “Քալաք”, “תל נמרוד”, “النمرود”, “كالخ”, “كالخو”, “مدينة نمرود”, “님로드”, “カラハ”, “ニムルード”, “卡尔胡”, “卡拉城”, “卡拉赫”, and “宁穆禄”
Nimrud
- Categories: ancient city, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Al-Hamdaniya District, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
36.09622° or 36° 5′ 46″ north
Longitude
43.32925° or 43° 19′ 45″ east
Elevation
203 metres (666 feet)
Open location code
8H8538WH+FP
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Nimrud” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “اثار نمرود”
- Arabic: “كالح”
- Aragonese: “Nimrud”
- Armenian: “Նիմրուդ”
- Azerbaijani: “Nimrud”
- Bashkir: “Нимруд”
- Basque: “Nimrud”
- Belarusian: “Німруд”
- Bosnian: “Nimrud”
- Bulgarian: “Нимруд”
- Catalan: “Nimrud”
- Cebuano: “Āthār Nimrūd”
- Central Kurdish: “کالێ”
- Chinese: “尼姆魯德”
- Chinese: “尼姆鲁德”
- Chuvash: “Нимруд”
- Croatian: “Kalah”
- Czech: “Nimrud”
- Danish: “Nimrud”
- Dutch: “Kalhu”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كالح”
- Esperanto: “Nimrud”
- Faroese: “Nimrud”
- Finnish: “Nimrud”
- French: “Nimroud”
- Georgian: “ქალხუ”
- German: “Nimrud”
- Greek: “Νιμρούντ”
- Hebrew: “כלח”
- Hindi: “निमरुद”
- Hungarian: “Kalhu”
- Indonesian: “Nimrud”
- Irish: “Nimrud”
- Italian: “Nimrud”
- Japanese: “ニムルド”
- Korean: “님루드”
- Latin: “Chale”
- Latvian: “Nimrūda”
- Macedonian: “Нимруд”
- Malay: “Nimrud”
- Marathi: “निमरूद”
- Mingrelian: “ქალხუ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nimrud”
- Norwegian: “Nimrud”
- Persian: “نمرود”
- Persian: “نیمرود (کلخو)”
- Polish: “Kalchu”
- Polish: “Kalhu”
- Portuguese: “Nimrud”
- Portuguese: “Ninrude”
- Romanian: “Nimrud”
- Russian: “Нимруд”
- Rusyn: “Німруд”
- Scots: “Nimrud”
- Serbian: “Nimrud”
- Serbian: “Нимруд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nimrud”
- Slovenian: “Nimrud”
- Spanish: “Nimrud”
- Swedish: “Nimrud”
- Swiss German: “Kalach”
- Tagalog: “Nimrud”
- Tamil: “நிம்ருத்”
- Turkish: “Nimrud”
- Ukrainian: “Німруд”
- Urdu: “نمردو”
- Urdu: “نمرود”
- Vietnamese: “Nimrud”
- Welsh: “Nimrud”
- Wu Chinese: “尼姆鲁德”
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