Iskandariya
Al-Iskandariya or Alexandria is an ancient city in central Iraq, one of a number of towns in the Near East founded by and named after Alexander the Great.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 101,000 residents
- Description: city
- Also known as: “Al Iskandarīyah”, “Al-Iskandariya”, “Iskandarīya”, “Iskanderiyeh”, “Iskenderie”, “Khan Iskandarīya”, “Nahiyat al Iskandariyah”, “Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah”, and “Sikandariyeh”
Iskandariya
- Category: city
- Location: Al-Mahawil District, Babil Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Iskandariya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أسكندرية العراق”
- Arabic: “الإسكندرية”
- Arabic: “الإسكندريه”
- Arabic: “الاسكندرية”
- Arabic: “ناحية الإسكندرية”
- Asturian: “Iskandariya”
- Cebuano: “Nāḩīyat al Iskandarīyah”
- Chinese: “伊斯坎德耶”
- Chinese: “伊斯坎德里耶”
- Dutch: “Iskandariya”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الاسكندريه”
- French: “Iskandariyah”
- Japanese: “イスカンダリーヤ”
- Kazakh: “Ïskandarïya”
- Kazakh: “Искандария”
- Kazakh: “ىيسكاندارىييا”
- Korean: “이스칸다리야”
- Mazanderani: “اسکندریه، عراق”
- Mazanderani: “اسکندریه”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Iskandariya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Iskandariya”
- Norwegian: “Iskandariya”
- Persian: “اسکندریه، عراق”
- Persian: “اسکندریه”
- Polish: “Al-Iskandarijja”
- Polish: “Iskandarija”
- Polish: “Iskandariya”
- Polish: “Iskandariyah”
- Romanian: “Iskandariya”
- Russian: “Искандария”
- Russian: “Эль-Искандария”
- Swedish: “Nāḩīyat al Iskandarīyah”
- Turkish: “İskenderiye, Irak”
- Turkish: “İskenderiye”
- Uzbek: “Iskandariya”
- Western Panjabi: “سکندریہ”
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