Ankawa

Ankawa is a suburb and neighborhood of in , 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.
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  • 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.
Basharh, Public domain.
The Cathedral of Saint Joseph, Ankawa, also known…
Sarbast.T.Hameed, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a Sunni in , in the of . 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
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2479376280
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
98304
Wiki­data ID
Q556617

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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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