Nimrud

Nimrud is an ancient Assyrian city located in Iraq, 30 kilometres south of the city of , and 5 kilometres south of the village of Selamiyah, in the Nineveh Plains in .
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  • Locality
  • Description: ancient Assyrian city
  • Also known as
    “Calah”
    “Kalakh”
    “Kalhu”
    “Kalkhu”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hamam al Alil.
is a about 27 km south of … is situated 10 km northwest of Nimrud.

Nimrud

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Latitude
36.09866° or 36° 5′ 55″ north
Longitude
43.32898° or 43° 19′ 44″ east
Open location code
8H8538XH+FH
Open­Street­Map ID
way 295528281
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­locality
Wiki­data ID
Q237614

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Nimrud” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “النمرود”
  • Arabic: “كالح”
  • Arabic: “كالخ”
  • Arabic: “كالخو”
  • Arabic: “مدينة نمرود”
  • Aragonese: “Nimrud”
  • Armenian: “Կալխու”
  • Armenian: “Նիմրուդ”
  • Armenian: “Քալախ”
  • Armenian: “Քալաք”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nimrud”
  • Bashkir: “Калах”
  • Bashkir: “Калху”
  • Bashkir: “Калһу”
  • Bashkir: “Кальху”
  • Bashkir: “Нимруд”
  • Basque: “Nimrud”
  • Belarusian: “Німруд”
  • Bosnian: “Nimrud”
  • Bulgarian: “Нимруд”
  • Catalan: “Calah”
  • Catalan: “Kalakh”
  • Catalan: “Kalhu”
  • Catalan: “Kalkhu”
  • Catalan: “Nimrud”
  • Cebuano: “Āthār Nimrūd”
  • Central Kurdish: “کالێ”
  • Chinese: “卡尔胡”
  • Chinese: “卡拉城”
  • Chinese: “卡拉赫”
  • Chinese: “宁穆禄”
  • Chinese: “尼姆魯德”
  • Chinese: “尼姆鲁德”
  • Chuvash: “Нимруд”
  • Croatian: “Kalah”
  • Czech: “Kalach”
  • Czech: “Kalchu”
  • Czech: “Nimrud”
  • Czech: “Nimrúd”
  • Danish: “Nimrud”
  • Dutch: “Calah”
  • Dutch: “Kalach”
  • Dutch: “Kalah”
  • Dutch: “Kalcha”
  • Dutch: “Kalchoe”
  • Dutch: “Kalhu”
  • Dutch: “Nimroed”
  • Dutch: “Nimrud”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كالح”
  • Esperanto: “Kalaĥ”
  • Esperanto: “Kalĥu”
  • Esperanto: “Nimrud”
  • Faroese: “Nimrud”
  • Finnish: “Nimrud”
  • French: “Kalhu”
  • French: “Kalhû”
  • French: “Kalkhu”
  • French: “Nimroud”
  • French: “Nimrud”
  • Georgian: “ქალხუ”
  • German: “Kalchu”
  • German: “Kalhu”
  • German: “Kalḥu”
  • German: “Kalḫu”
  • German: “Nimrod”
  • German: “Nimrud”
  • Greek: “Νιμρούντ”
  • Hebrew: “כלח”
  • Hebrew: “תל נמרוד”
  • Hindi: “निमरुद”
  • Hungarian: “Kalhu”
  • Indonesian: “Calah”
  • Indonesian: “Kalah”
  • Indonesian: “Kalakh”
  • Indonesian: “Kalhu”
  • Indonesian: “Nimrud”
  • Irish: “Nimrud”
  • Italian: “Nimrud”
  • Japanese: “カラハ”
  • Japanese: “ニムルード”
  • Japanese: “ニムルド”
  • Korean: “님로드”
  • Korean: “님루드”
  • Latin: “Chale”
  • Latin: “Nimrud”
  • Latvian: “Nimrūda”
  • Macedonian: “Нимруд”
  • Malay: “Nimrud”
  • Marathi: “निमरुद”
  • Marathi: “निमरूद”
  • Mingrelian: “ქალხუ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nimrud”
  • Norwegian: “Nimrud”
  • Persian: “نمرود”
  • Persian: “نیمرود (کلخو)”
  • Polish: “Kalach”
  • Polish: “Kalchu”
  • Polish: “Kalhu”
  • Polish: “Nimrud”
  • Portuguese: “Nimrud”
  • Portuguese: “Ninrude”
  • Romanian: “Kalkhu”
  • Romanian: “Nimrud”
  • Russian: “Калах”
  • Russian: “Калху”
  • Russian: “Кальху”
  • Russian: “Нимруд”
  • Rusyn: “Німруд”
  • Scots: “Nimrud”
  • Serbian: “Nimrud”
  • Serbian: “Нимруд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kalah”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kalhu”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nimrud”
  • Slovenian: “Nimrud”
  • Spanish: “Calach”
  • Spanish: “Kalhu”
  • Spanish: “Kalkhu”
  • Spanish: “Nimrud”
  • Swedish: “Kalhu”
  • Swedish: “Nimrud”
  • Swiss German: “Kalach”
  • Tagalog: “Nimrud”
  • Tamil: “நிம்ருத்”
  • Turkish: “Kalah”
  • Turkish: “Nimrud”
  • Turkish: “Nimrūd”
  • Ukrainian: “Німруд”
  • Urdu: “نمردو”
  • Urdu: “نمرود”
  • Vietnamese: “Nimrud”
  • Welsh: “Nimrud”
  • Welsh: “Nimrwd”
  • Wu Chinese: “尼姆鲁德”

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