Mosul facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Mosul
الموصل
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Tigris, a bridge and Grand Mosque in Mosul
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Nickname(s):
Nīnwē ܢܝ݂ܢܘܹܐ
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Country | Iraq |
Governorate | Nineveh Governorate |
Area | |
• City | 180 km2 (70 sq mi) |
Elevation | 223 m (732 ft) |
Population
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• City | 664,221 |
• Urban | Unknown (estimates range between 750,000 and 1,500,000 |
UNData 1987 | |
Demonym(s) | Moslawi |
Time zone | UTC+3 (AST) |
Area code(s) | 60 |
Mosul (Arabic: الموصل al-Mawṣil, Kurdish: مووسڵ, Syriac: ܡܘܨܠ, romanized: Māwṣil) is a city in the north of Iraq. Under the Ottoman Empire it was the capital of northern Iraq. More than a million people lived there when Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant conquered it in 2014. In 2017 the Iraqi Army with help from Kurdish Peshmerga troops and other militias took the city back.
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Images for kids
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Mosul Museum is the second largest museum in Iraq after the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad. It containins ancient Mesopotamian artifacts, mainly Assyrian.
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Dair Mar Elia south of Mosul, Iraq's oldest monastery of the Assyrian Church of the East, dating from the 6th century. It was destroyed by ISIS in 2014.
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A souk (traditional market) in Mosul, 1932
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View of the Tigris river in Mosul
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Mar Mattai Monastery of the Syriac Orthodox Church
See also
In Spanish: Mosul para niños