Alqosh
Alqosh is an ethnically Assyrian town in the contested Nineveh Province of Iraq, but controlled by Iraqi Kurdistan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Chaldean, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 15,000 residents
- Description: city in Iraq
- Also known as: “Al Qush”, “Algōsh”, “Alkosh”, “Alqoush”, and “Alqush”
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.
Alqosh
- Categories: city, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Tel Keppe District, Nineveh, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.7348° or 36° 44′ 5″ northLongitude
43.0974° or 43° 5′ 51″ eastPopulation
15,000Elevation
530 metres (1,739 feet)Open location code
8H85P3MW+WXOpenStreetMap ID
node 2480179007OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
99000Wikidata ID
Q1150394
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Satellite Map
Discover Alqosh from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Alqosh” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ألقوش”
- Arabic: “ألقوش”
- Arabic: “القوش”
- Arabic: “قوش”
- Asturian: “Alqosh”
- Bengali: “আলকোশ”
- Catalan: “al-Qux”
- Catalan: “Alqosh”
- Cebuano: “Al Qūsh”
- Central Kurdish: “ئەلقوش”
- Central Kurdish: “ئەلقۆش”
- Chinese: “亚勒辜须”
- Chinese: “亞勒辜須”
- Dutch: “Al Qūsh”
- Dutch: “Alqosh”
- Finnish: “Alqoš”
- French: “Alqosh”
- Galician: “Alqux”
- German: “Alqosch”
- German: “Alqosh”
- Hebrew: “אלקוש”
- Irish: “Alqosh”
- Italian: “Alqosh”
- Japanese: “アルコーシュ”
- Japanese: “エルコシュ”
- Kurdish: “Elkîş”
- Kurdish: “Elqush”
- Kurdish: “ئەلقوش”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alqosh”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alqosh”
- Norwegian: “Alqosh”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “Alkosh”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “Alqosh”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “Alqush”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܠܩܘܫ”
- Persian: “القوش”
- Polish: “Alkosz”
- Polish: “Alkusz”
- Polish: “Alqosh”
- Russian: “Алкош”
- Russian: “Алькаш”
- Russian: “Алькуш”
- Russian: “Эль-Кош”
- Slovenian: “Alkoš”
- Spanish: “Alqosh”
- Swedish: “Al Qūsh”
- Swedish: “Alqosh”
- Turkish: “Alqosh”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Alqosh”. Photo: Chaldean, Public domain.