Balawat
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: archaeological site in Iraq
- Also known as: “Balāwāt”, “Bālāwāt”, “Bālāwāt, بالاوات, Balawat, بالاوات”, “Imgur-Enlil”, and “Qaryat Tabah”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Al-Hamdaniya District and Karamlesh.
Al-Hamdaniya District
Town
Photo: Chaldean, Public domain.
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. Al-Hamdaniya District is situated 6 km northwest of 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 9 km north of Balawat.
Balawat
- Categories: human settlement, archaeological site, and locality
- Location: Al-Hamdaniya District, Nineveh, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.22204° or 36° 13′ 19″ northLongitude
43.41455° or 43° 24′ 52″ eastElevation
261 metres (856 feet)Open location code
8H856CC7+RROpenStreetMap ID
node 2485315427OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Balawat” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بالاوات”
- Arabic: “بلاوات عدد النفوس 175”
- Arabic: “بلاوات”
- Arabic: “قرية تبه”
- Catalan: “Balawat”
- Catalan: “Tell Balawat”
- Central Kurdish: “بەلاوات”
- Chinese: “伊穆尔-恩利尔”
- Chinese: “伊穆爾-恩利爾”
- Chinese: “巴拉瓦特”
- Dutch: “Balawat”
- Dutch: “Imgur-Enlil”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بلاوات”
- Finnish: “Balawat”
- French: “Balawat”
- French: “Imgur-Enlil”
- German: “Balawat”
- German: “Imgur-Enlil (Balawat)”
- German: “Imgur-Enlil”
- Hebrew: “בלאוואת”
- Irish: “Balawat”
- Japanese: “バラワット”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Balawat”
- Norwegian: “Balawat”
- Persian: “بلاوات”
- Polish: “Balawat”
- Polish: “Imgur-Enlil”
- Polish: “Wrota z Balawat”
- Spanish: “Balawat”
- Spanish: “Imgur-Enlil”
- Spanish: “Tell Balawat”
- Swedish: “Balawat”
- Turkish: “Balavat”
- Urdu: “بلاوات”
- Vietnamese: “Balawat, Muddebihal”
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