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Dora

Dora is a neighborhood in Al Rashid administrative district, southern , . Before the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, it was home to the city's largest concentration of Christian Assyrians, as well as Mandaeans and Muslim families.
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  • Type: Suburb with 280,000 residents
  • Description: neighborhood of Baghdad in Baghdad Governorate, Iraq
  • Also known as: “Ad Dawrah”, “Ad-Dôra”, “Al-Dora”, “Al-Dura”, “Bâ Dûraja’”, “Bejt Dûraja’”, “Daura”, “Dora, Baghdad”, “Ḩayy ad Dawrah”, “Ḩayy ad Dūrah”, and “دورة”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pizza Hut and Al-Masafi Stadium.

Fast food restaurant
Photo: Ed!, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, LLC is an American multinational pizza restaurant chain and international franchise founded in 1958 in , by brothers Dan and Frank Carney. is situated 3½ km north of Dora.

Pitch
is a multi-use in , . It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as the home stadium of Al-Masafi. The stadium holds 5,000 people. is situated 3 km northeast of Dora.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Al-Jadriya and Al-Saydiya.

Suburb
Photo: Ali hassan 28, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a neighborhood in , . It is situated along the Tigris River and shares a significant but comparatively smaller part of the peninsula with the neighboring district. is situated 4 km north of Dora.

Quarter
is a neighborhood in the Al Rashid district of southwestern , . Baiyaa is to the north and Dora to the east. A once middle-class district, much of was built within the last three decades on prime real estate between Baghdad Airport Road and the main highway where it forks into central Baghdad and south to . is situated 4½ km west of Dora.

Photo: Marduksumer, Public domain.
is the capital and largest city of , with an estimated population of 6-7 million. Once one of the greatest centres of learning and culture in the world, was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate during the Islamic Golden Age.

Dora

Latitude
33.25064° or 33° 15′ 2″ north
Longitude
44.40401° or 44° 24′ 14″ east
Population
280,000
Elevation
36 metres (118 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IQ ADW
Open location code
8H567C23+7J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11527328498
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
99767
Wiki­data ID
Q5297374
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Russian—“Dora” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الدورة”
  • Arabic: “الدوره (بغداد)”
  • Arabic: “حي الدورة”
  • Bavarian: “Dora”
  • Dutch: “Dora”
  • French: “Dora”
  • German: “Dora”
  • Irish: “Dora”
  • Papiamento: “Dora”
  • Persian: “دوره، بغداد”
  • Russian: “Эд-Даура”

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