Iraq
Iraqi Kurdistan
Dohuk Governorate

Amedi

Amedi or Amadiye is a town in the of of Iraq. It is built on a mesa in the broader river valley. Amedi is known for its celebrations of Newroz.
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  • Type: Town with 6,000 residents
  • Description: town in Iraqi Kurdistan
  • Also known as: “‘Amādīya”, “‘Amādīyah”, “Al ‘Amadiyah”, “Al Amadiya”, “Amādia”, “Amadiya”, “Amadiye”, “Amādīyeh”, “Amēdī”, and “Amedy”
Photo: Duhokamn, Public domain.
Photo: Emir doski, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Emir doski, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Emir doski, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Emir doski, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Emir doski, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Emir doski, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Amedi

Latitude
37.092° or 37° 5′ 31″ north
Longitude
43.4874° or 43° 29′ 15″ east
Population
6,000
Elevation
1,187 metres (3,894 feet)
Open location code
8H953FRP+QX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 213526185
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
99611
Wiki­data ID
Q460736
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Amedi” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “العمادية”
  • Arabic: “العماديه”
  • Arabic: “اميدي”
  • Arabic: “عمادية”
  • Armenian: “Ամադիա”
  • Asturian: “Amedi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Amadiyə”
  • Basque: “Amadia”
  • Bengali: “আমেদি”
  • Catalan: “Amadia”
  • Catalan: “Amadiya”
  • Catalan: “Amadiyya”
  • Cebuano: “Al ‘Amādīyah”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئامێدی”
  • Chinese: “阿馬迪耶”
  • Chinese: “阿马迪耶”
  • Czech: “Amádíja”
  • Danish: “Amedi”
  • Danish: “Amediye”
  • Dutch: “Amediye”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “آمدى”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “أميدى”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “امدى”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اميدى”
  • Finnish: “Amedi”
  • French: “Amedi”
  • Georgian: “ელ-ამადია”
  • German: “Amadiya”
  • German: “Amadiyah”
  • German: “Amedî”
  • German: “Amêdî”
  • German: “Amediye”
  • Greek: “Αμεντί”
  • Hausa: “Amedi”
  • Hebrew: “אל-עמאדיה”
  • Hebrew: “עמידייה”
  • Hungarian: “al-Amadíjja”
  • Hungarian: “al-Amádíjjah”
  • Hungarian: “Amadíijja”
  • Hungarian: “Amádíja”
  • Hungarian: “Amádíjah”
  • Hungarian: “Amádijja”
  • Hungarian: “Amadijjah”
  • Hungarian: “Amádíjjah”
  • Indonesian: “Amedi”
  • Italian: “Amadiya”
  • Japanese: “アマディヤ”
  • Kazakh: “Амадия”
  • Kazakh: “Әл-Амадия”
  • Kazakh: “Әл-Ғамадия”
  • Kazakh: “Әмеди”
  • Kurdish: “Amedî”
  • Kurdish: “Amêdî”
  • Kurdish: “Amediye”
  • Kurdish: “Amediyê”
  • Kurdish: “Amêdiyê”
  • Kurdish: “Amîdî”
  • Kurdish: “ئاميدى”
  • Kurdish: “ئامێدى”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Amediye”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Amadiya”
  • Norwegian: “Amediye”
  • Persian: “آشب”
  • Persian: “آمدی”
  • Persian: “اشب”
  • Persian: “امدی”
  • Persian: “عمادیه”
  • Polish: “Al-Amadijja”
  • Portuguese: “Amedi”
  • Russian: “Амадия”
  • Russian: “Амедия”
  • Russian: “Эль-Амадия”
  • Serbian: “Амадија”
  • Spanish: “Amadiya”
  • Swedish: “Al ‘Amādīyah”
  • Swedish: “Amedi”
  • Swedish: “Amediye”
  • Turkish: “Amadiye”
  • Turkish: “İmadiye”
  • Ukrainian: “Амадей”
  • Uzbek: “Amedi”

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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 Wikipedia page “Amedi”. Photo: MikaelF, CC BY-SA 3.0.