 Ninawa (in Arabic: نینوا ,in kurdish: Neynewa ) in Assyrian: Nineve is a governorate (province) in Iraq, and the Arabic name for the biblical city of Nineveh in Assyria. It has an area of 37,323 km2 and an estimated population of 2,509,800 people. Its chief city, and the provincial capital, is Mosul (in Arabic al Mawsil). Image File history File links province of Iraq File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Arabic can mean: From or related to Arabia From or related to the Arabs The Arabic language; see also Arabic grammar The Arabic alphabet, used for expressing the languages of Arabic, Persian, Malay ( Jawi), Kurdish, Panjabi, Pashto, Sindhi and Urdu, among others. ...
Kurdish may refer to: The Kurdish people The Kurdish language This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
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A governorate is a subnational entity. ...
Arabic (; , less formally, ) is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ...
The Bible (sometimes The Book, Good Book, Word of God, The Word, or Scripture), from Greek (τα) βιβλια, (ta) biblia, (the) books, is the classical name for the Hebrew Bible of Judaism or the combination of the Old Testament and New Testament of Christianity (The Bible therefore actually refers to at least...
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Assyria in earliest historical times referred to a region on the Upper Tigris river, named for its original capital, the ancient city of Ashur. ...
Mosul (36°22′N 43°07′E; Arabic: , Kurdish: Mûsil, Assyrian: Ü¢ÜÜ¢Ü˜Ü NînÄ›wâ) is a city in northern Iraq. ...
Its two main cities endured the 2003 U.S. invasion and emerged relatively unscarthed. In 2005, however, Mosul and Tall Afar were the scenes of fierce battles between U.S.-led troops and the Iraqi insurgency. The insurgents had moved to Ninawa after the Battle of Fallujah in 2004. 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Iraqi militants celebrating orders that the surrounding Coalition forces were given to stand-down. ...
Fallujah (Arabic: فلوجة; sometimes transliterated as Falluja and less commonly Fallouja, Falloujah, Faloojah, Faloojeh) is a city of about 350,000 inhabitants in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar, located roughly 69km (43 miles) west of Baghdad on the Euphrates. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Mosul (36°22′N 43°07′E; Arabic: , Kurdish: Mûsil, Assyrian: Ü¢ÜÜ¢Ü˜Ü NînÄ›wâ) is a city in northern Iraq. ...
The Arabs (Arabic: عرب ʻarab) are a large ethnic group widespread in the Middle East and North Africa, originating in the Arabian Peninsula of southwest Asia. ...
This article concerns the Assyrian people. ...
The Kurds (in Kurdish: Kurd) are an Iranian people (a classification that is more linguistic than ethnic in the case of some Kurds) inhabiting a mountainous area of Southwest Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Turkey, and Iran as well as smaller sections of Syria, Armenia and Lebanon. ...
Tal Afar (also Talafar) in Arabic تل عÙر (also تلعÙر) is a city in northern Iraq, about 30 miles west of Mosul. ...
The Kurds (in Kurdish: Kurd) are an Iranian people (a classification that is more linguistic than ethnic in the case of some Kurds) inhabiting a mountainous area of Southwest Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Turkey, and Iran as well as smaller sections of Syria, Armenia and Lebanon. ...
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The Governorate Council election in the Ninawa governate of Iraq was held on January 30, 2005, simultaneously with the national legislative election. ...
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