Tell Taya
Tell Taya is an archaeological site at a tell in Nineveh Province. It was occupied from the third to the first millennia BC. Tell Taya lies about 20 kilometres southwest of Mosul and Nineveh.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tal Afar and Matar Faruq al Askari.
Tal Afar
Photo: Kparker84, Public domain.
Tal Afar is a city in the Nineveh Governorate of northwestern Iraq, located 63 km west of Mosul, 52 km east of Sinjar and 200 km northwest of Kirkuk. Its local inhabitants are exclusively Turkmen.
Matar Faruq al Askari
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Tal Afar Air Base is a former Iraqi Air Force base near Tal Afar in the Nineveh Governorate of Iraq. It was constructed in 1983 for use by the Iraqi Air Force and operated until the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Matar Faruq al Askari is situated 9 km southwest of Tell Taya.
Tell Taya
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: archaeological site in Iraq
- Categories: tell, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Tel Afar District, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
36.33271° or 36° 19′ 58″ northLongitude
42.49369° or 42° 29′ 37″ eastOpen location code
8H848FMV+3FOpenStreetMap ID
node 4851840698OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q7697518
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Tell Taya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تل الطايع”
- Dutch: “Tell Taya”
- German: “Tell Taya”
- Hebrew: “תל תאיה”
- Turkish: “Tell Taya”
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