Ankawa
Ankawa is a suburb and neighborhood of Erbil in Kurdistan Region, Iraq. It is located 8 kilometres northwest of downtown Erbil. The suburb is predominantly populated by Christian Assyrians, most of whom adhere to the Chaldean Catholic Church.- Town with 40,700 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 413 metres (1,355 feet)
- Description: suburb of Erbil, Kurdistan
- Also known as“Ainkawa”“Aynkāwah”“Markaz ‘Aynkāwah”“ܥܢܟܒܐ / عەنکاوە”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saint Joseph Church and Jalil Khayat Mosque.
Saint Joseph Church
Church
The Cathedral of Saint Joseph, Ankawa, also known…
Jalil Khayat Mosque
Mosque
The Jalil Khayat Mosque is a Sunni mosque in Erbil, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Jalil Khayat Mosque is situated 3½ km southeast of Ankawa.
Ankawa
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Latitude
36.22836° or 36° 13′ 42″ north
Longitude
43.99534° or 43° 59′ 43″ east
Open location code
8H856XHW+84
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Ankawa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “عنكاوا”
- Arabic: “عنكاوة”
- Arabic: “عينكاوا”
- Arabic: “عينكاوة”
- Arabic: “عينكاوه”
- Arabic: “مركز عينكاوة”
- Central Kurdish: “عەنکاوە”
- Czech: “Ankava”
- Czech: “Ankawa”
- Dutch: “Ankawa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “عنكاوا”
- Finnish: “Ankawa”
- French: “Ankawa”
- German: “Ankawa”
- Irish: “Ankawa”
- Kurdish: “‘Enkawe”
- Kurdish: “‘Eynkawa”
- Kurdish: “Enkawa”
- Kurdish: “Enkawe”
- Kurdish: “عەينكاوا”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Enkawa”
- Norwegian: “Enkawa”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܥܢܟܒܐ”
- Persian: “عنکاوا”
- Portuguese: “Ankawa”
- Russian: “Анкава”
- Spanish: “Ankawa”
- Swedish: “Ankawa”
- Thai: “อันกาวา”
- Turkish: “Ankava”
- Urdu: “عنکاوہ”
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