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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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: ancient Assyrian city
  • Also known as: “Calah”, “Kalakh”, “Kalhu”, and “Kalkhu”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hamam al Alil.

Town
is a about 27 km south of in the in , on the western bank of the Tigris River. It is well known for its mineral water springs and receives visitors from all over Iraq seeking treatment due to the various purported medical benefits of the sulfur-rich geothermal waters. is situated 10 km northwest of Nimrud.

Nimrud

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: “Նիմրուդ”
  • 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”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kalach”
  • Turkish: “Kalah”
  • Turkish: “Nimrud”
  • Turkish: “Nimrūd”
  • Ukrainian: “Німруд”
  • Urdu: “نمردو”
  • Vietnamese: “Nimrud”
  • Welsh: “Nimrud”
  • Welsh: “Nimrwd”
  • Wu Chinese: “尼姆鲁德”

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