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Amedi

Al-Adhamiyah, also Azamiya, is a neighborhood and east-central district of the city of , . It is one of nine administrative districts in Baghdad.
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  • Type: Quarter
  • Description: district of Baghdad
  • Also known as: “‘Amādiya Qadhā’”, “Adhamiya”, “Adhamiyah”, “Al ‘Amādiya Qadhā’”, “Al ‘Amādīyah”, “Al-A’zamiyah”, “Al-Adhamiyah”, “Amadiyah”, “Amadiyah Qadha”, “Amedy”, “Azamiya”, and “Azimīya, Az̧amiya, Adhamiya, Al Az̧amīyah, Al Muadhdham, Ḩayy al Az̧amīyah, Muadhdham, Muadham, حي الاعظمية, Azimiya, Azamiya, Adhamiya, Al Azamiyah, Al Muadhdham, Hayy al Azamiyah, Muadhdham, Muadham, حي الاعظمية”
  • Postal code: 42008

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kadhimain Shrine and Abu Hanifa Mosque.

Mosque
Photo: Taisir Mahdi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Kadhimiyya Mosque is a Twelver Shi'ite and shrine located in the suburb of , in the of . It contains the tombs of the seventh and ninth Twelver Shī'ī Imāms, respectively Mūsā al-Kādhim and his grandson Muhammad al-Jawad.

Mosque
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , also known as the Grand Imam Mosque, is a Sunni and shrine, located in the A'dhamiyya district of northern , in the of .

Library
The is the national library and national archives of . It is located in the Iraqi capital of and was founded in 1920. It has often been affected by losses resulting from warfare. is situated 3½ km southeast of Amedi.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saba Abkar and Kadhimiya.

Neighborhood
is an area, north of , , located on the eastern bank of , just outside of Adhamiya. is situated 3½ km north of Amedi.

Suburb
Photo: Ligadier Truffaut, CC BY 2.0.
or Kadhimayn is a northern neighbourhood of the city of , . It is about 5 kilometres from the city's center, on the west bank of the .

Suburb
Bab al-Mu'adham is a prominent landmark in , . Bab al-Mu'adham was previously and historically one of the gates of Baghdad during the Ottoman Empire, leading to the mosque of Abu Hanifa, a renowned Islamic scholar.

Amedi

Latitude
33.3693° or 33° 22′ 10″ north
Longitude
44.3594° or 44° 21′ 34″ east
Elevation
1,196 metres (3,924 feet)
Abbreviation
“AMD”
Open location code
8H569995+PQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2486307535
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­quarter
Geo­Names ID
99612
Wiki­data ID
Q3348058
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Waray—“Amedi” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Adhamije”
  • Arabic: “أعظمية”
  • Arabic: “الأعظمية”
  • Arabic: “الأعظميه”
  • Arabic: “الاعظمية”
  • Arabic: “الاعظميه”
  • Arabic: “العمادية”
  • Arabic: “حي الاعظمية”
  • Arabic: “مدينة الاعظمية”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əzəmiyyə”
  • Basque: “Adhamiyah”
  • Bulgarian: “Азамия”
  • Catalan: “Adhamiyah”
  • Cebuano: “Adhamiyah”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەعزەمییە”
  • Chinese: “阿宰米耶”
  • Dutch: “Adhamiyah”
  • French: “Adhamiya”
  • French: “Adhamiyah”
  • German: “Adhamiya”
  • Italian: “Al-A’zamiyya”
  • Japanese: “アザミーヤ区”
  • Japanese: “アダミーヤ地区”
  • Japanese: “アダミヤ”
  • Kazakh: “Ағзамия”
  • Kazakh: “Әл-Ағзамия”
  • Kurdish: “Amêdî”
  • Kurdish: “ئامێدى”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Adhamiyah”
  • Persian: “اعظمیه”
  • Polish: “al-A’zamijja”
  • Russian: “Азамия”
  • Russian: “Эль-Аазамия”
  • Russian: “Эль-Азамия”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اعظمیه”
  • Swedish: “Adhamiyah”
  • Tajik: “A’zamija”
  • Tajik: “Аъзамия”
  • Turkish: “Azamiye”
  • Urdu: “اعظمیہ”
  • Uzbek: “Aʼzamiya”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Adhamiyah”

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