Place:Ninawa, Iraq

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NameNinawa
Alt namesMuāfaat Nīnawa'source: NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Neinevasource: Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) p 293
Ninawasource: Wikipedia
Nīnawa'source: NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Nīnawāsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Nīnawā governoratesource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeGovernorate
Coordinates36.167°N 42.583°E
Located inIraq
Contained Places
Deserted settlement
Arpachiyah
Ashur
Inhabited place
Al-Ḥaḍr
Alqosh
Ash-Sharqāṭ
Baiji
Bakhdida
Balawat
Baqofah
Bartella
Batnaya
Dashqotan
Khorsabad
Mosul
Sinjār
Tal Afar
Tall Kayf
Tall ʿĀfar
Tel Keppe
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Nineveh Governorate is a governorate in northern Iraq. It has an area of and an estimated population of 2,453,000 people as of 2003. Its largest city and provincial capital is Mosul, which lies across the Tigris river from the ruins of ancient Nineveh. Before 1976, it was called Mosul Province and included the present-day Dohuk Governorate. The second largest city is Tal Afar, which had an almost exclusively Turkmen population.

An ethnically, religiously and culturally diverse region, it was partly conquered by ISIS in 2014. Iraqi government forces retook the city of Mosul in 2017.

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