Ali Air Base

Nasiriyah Airport is a public and military airport located 23 km southwest of , . It is also known as Tallil Air Base until December 2011 and Imam Ali Air Base until March 2017, when the base was used by United States Armed Forces.
Wikipedia
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: Iraqi air base in Nasiriyah
  • Also known as: “Camp Adder”, “Imam Ali Air Base”, “Nasiriyah Airport”, “Nasiriyah International Airport”, and “Talil Airfield”

Places of Interest

Highlights include The ancient city of Ur and Ziggurat of Ur.

Protected area
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Ur was a major Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar in , . Although Ur was a coastal city near the mouth of the on the , the coastline has shifted and the site is now well inland, on the south bank of the , 16 km southwest of the city of .

Archaeological site
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The is a Neo-Sumerian ziggurat in what was the city of near , in present-day , . The structure was built during the Early Bronze Age by King Ur-Nammu of the Third Dynasty of Ur.

Ruins
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The is an archaeological site in modern-day in southern . The initial excavations at took place between 1922 and 1934 under the direction of Leonard Woolley in association with the and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Ali Air Base

Latitude
30.9335° or 30° 56′ 1″ north
Longitude
46.0906° or 46° 5′ 26″ east
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
Open location code
8H28W3MR+C6
Open­Street­Map ID
way 235548839
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Wiki­data ID
Q4062227
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Ali Air Base” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “قاعدة الإمام علي الجوية”
  • Arabic: “قاعدة طليل الجوية”
  • Chinese: “納希利亞機場”
  • French: “base aérienne de Talil”
  • French: “Base aérienne de Talil”
  • Hungarian: “Ali Air Base”
  • Hungarian: “Ali légibázis”
  • Hungarian: “Ali repülőtér”
  • Hungarian: “Camp Adder”
  • Hungarian: “Imám Ali légibázis”
  • Hungarian: “nászirijjai repülőtér”
  • Hungarian: “Tálil légibázis”
  • Hungarian: “Tálil repülőtér”
  • Hungarian: “tálili repülőtér”
  • Japanese: “アリ空軍基地”
  • Japanese: “タリル空軍基地”
  • Persian: “پایگاه هوایی علی”
  • Russian: “Али (авиабаза)”
  • Russian: “Али”
  • Russian: “Талиль”
  • Russian: “Таллиль”
  • Tajik: “Пойгоҳи ҳавоӣ ъалӣ”
  • Tajik: “Пойгоҳи ҳавоии Алӣ”
  • Urdu: “ناصریہ ہوائی اڈا”
  • “ORTL”
  • “XNH”

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