Alqosh
Alqosh is an ethnically Assyrian town in the contested Nineveh Province of Iraq, but controlled by Iraqi Kurdistan.
Chaldean, Public domain.- Town with about 15,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 530 metres (1,750 feet)
- Description: city in Iraq
- Also known as“Al Qush”“Algōsh”“Alkosh”“Alqoush”
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Alqosh
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Latitude
36.7348° or 36° 44′ 5″ north
Longitude
43.0974° or 43° 5′ 51″ east
Open location code
8H85P3MW+WX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place = town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Alqosh” goes by many names.
ألقوشArabic
قوشArabic
AlqoshAsturian
আলকোশBengali
al-QuxCatalan
AlqoshCatalan
Al QūshCebuano
ئەلقوشCentral Kurdish
ئەلقۆشCentral Kurdish
亚勒辜须Chinese
亞勒辜須Chinese
Al QūshDutch
AlqoshDutch
AlqošFinnish
AlquxGalician
אלקושHebrew
AlqoshIrish
AlqoshItalian
アルコーシュJapanese
エルコシュJapanese
ElkîşKurdish
ElqushKurdish
ئەلقوشKurdish
AlqoshNorwegian
AlqoshNorwegian Bokmål
AlqoshNorwegian Nynorsk
AlkoshOfficial Aramaic (700-300 BCE)
AlqoshOfficial Aramaic (700-300 BCE)
AlqushOfficial Aramaic (700-300 BCE)
ܐܠܩܘܫOfficial Aramaic (700-300 BCE)
القوشPersian
AlkoszPolish
AlkuszPolish
AlqoshPolish
АлкошRussian
АлькашRussian
АлькушRussian
Эль-КошRussian
AlkošSlovenian
Al QūshSwedish
AlqoshSwedish
AlqoshTurkish
القوشUrdu
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