Mosul

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.

Mosul الموصل
City
Tigris, a bridge and Grand Mosque in Mosul
Nickname:  Nīnwē ܢܝ݂ܢܘܹܐ
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Coordinates: 36.34°N 43.13°E / 36.34; 43.13
Country	Iraq
Governorate	Nineveh Governorate
Area
• City	180 km2 (70 sq mi)
Elevation [1]	223 m (732 ft)
Population  (2015)
• City	664,221
• Urban	Unknown (estimates range between 750,000 and 1,500,000[2]
	UNData 1987[3]
Demonym	Moslawi
Time zone	UTC+3 (AST)
Area code	60

Further reading

Published in the 19th century

• Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Mosul", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
• "Mosul". Edinburgh Gazetteer (2nd ed.). Edinburgh: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. 1829.
• Josiah Conder (1834), "Mosul", Dictionary of Geography, Ancient and Modern, London: T. Tegg
• Charles Wilson, ed. (1895), "Mosul", Handbook for Travellers in Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Persia, etc., London: John Murray, ISBN 9780524062142, OCLC 8979039
• Edward Balfour, ed. (1871). "Mosul". Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia (2nd ed.). Madras.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Published in the 20th century

• "Mosul", Palestine and Syria (5th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1912
• "Mosul". Encyclopaedia of Islam. E.J. Brill. 1934. p. 609+. ISBN 9789004097926.
• Jacqueline Griffin (1996), "Mosul", in Trudy Ring (ed.), Middle East and Africa, International Dictionary of Historic Places, Routledge, ISBN 9781884964039

Published in the 21st century

• C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Mosul". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. ISBN 978-9004153882.
• Michael R.T. Dumper; Bruce E. Stanley, eds. (2007), "Mosul", Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, Santa Barbara, USA: ABC-CLIO (published 2008), ISBN 978-1576079195

References

1. Gladstone, Philip (10 February 2014). "Synop Information for ORBM (40608) in Mosul, Iraq". Weather Quality Reporter. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
2. Malas, Nour (9 June 2015). "Iraqi City of Mosul Transformed a Year After Islamic State Capture". Wall Street Journal.
3. "UNSD Demographic Statistics". United Nations Statistics Division 1987.

Other websites

• Media related to Mosul at Wikimedia Commons
• ninava-explorer Archived 2017-06-22 at the Wayback Machine
• Iraq Image – Mosul Satellite Observation Archived 2012-12-16 at Archive.today
• Detailed map of Mosul by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, from lib.utexas.edu
• ArchNet.org. "Mosul". Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Archived from the original on 2012-12-10. Retrieved 2014-05-29.