Alqosh Mountain
Alqosh Mountain is a peak in Tel Keppe District, Nineveh and has an elevation of 804 metres. Alqosh Mountain is situated nearby to the village Bozan, as well as near کانی گوڵان.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rabban Hormizd Monastery.
Rabban Hormizd Monastery
Church
Photo: Chaldean, Public domain.
Rabban Hormizd Monastery is an important convent to the Assyrian Church of the East, and the Chaldean Catholic Church, founded about 640 AD by the Church of the East, carved out in the mountains about 2 miles from Alqosh, Iraq, 28 miles north of Mosul.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alqosh and Sharafiyah.
Alqosh
Photo: Chaldean, Public domain.
Alqosh is an ethnically Assyrian town in the contested Nineveh Province of Iraq, but controlled by Iraqi Kurdistan.
Sharafiyah
Village
Photo: Atoraya, Public domain.
Sharafiya is a village in the Nineveh Plains of northern Iraq, a sub-district of the Tel Kaif District situated 40 km northwest of the city of Mosul and is on the main road that connects Mosul to Alqosh, which it is only 5 kilometers south of. Sharafiyah is situated 7 km south of Alqosh Mountain.
Alqosh Mountain
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 804 metres
- Also known as: “Chiyā i Alqōsh, Chiya i Alqosh”, “Chiya-i Alqosh”, and “Chiyā-i Alqōsh”
- Category: landform
- Location: Tel Keppe District, Nineveh, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
36.75385° or 36° 45′ 14″ northLongitude
43.11946° or 43° 7′ 10″ eastElevation
804 metres (2,638 feet)Open location code
8H85Q439+GQOpenStreetMap ID
node 2480179022OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
98999
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Kurdish—“Alqosh Mountain” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبل ألقوش”
- French: “Chiya i Alqosh”
- German: “Chiya i Alqosh”
- Kurdish: “Chiya i Alqosh”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Bozan and کانی گوڵان.
Notable Places Nearby
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