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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Photo: Leviclancy, CC0.
  • Type: Town with 40,700 residents
  • Description: suburb of Erbil, Kurdistan
  • Also known as: “‘Aynkawah”, “‘Aynkāwah”, “Ainkawa”, “Aynkāwah”, “Markaz ‘Aynkāwah”, and “ܥܢܟܒܐ / عەنکاوە”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Saint Joseph Church and Jalil Khayat Mosque.

Church
Photo: Basharh, Public domain.
The Cathedral of Saint Joseph, Ankawa, also known as Cathedral of Mar Yousif, is the Chaldean Catholic cathedral and seat of the Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan created under the pontificate of Pope Paul VI.

Mosque
Photo: Sarbast.T.Hameed, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a Sunni in , in the of . It is the largest mosque in Erbil. The mosque was begun by Jalil Khayat, who later died in 2005, and it was completed in 2007 by his sons in memory of their father. is situated 3½ km southeast of Ankawa.

Ankawa

Latitude
36.22836° or 36° 13′ 42″ north
Longitude
43.99534° or 43° 59′ 43″ east
Population
40,700
Elevation
413 metres (1,355 feet)
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”
  • “Ankawa”

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