| hdhd | The History and Culture if Mosul Nineveh | |
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Ancient Mosul (Al Mawsil) الموصـــــــــــــــــــــل عبــــر التأريـــــــــــــــخ Mosul is a city in the largest city in north Iraq situated on the banks of the Tigris River. The city originally was on the right bank of the river and has expanded to left bank to enclose the ruins of the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh. It has been suggested that it was built on the site of an earlier Assyrian fortress. Mosul (the link) succeeded Nineveh as the Tigris bridgehead between the west and the east. It linked Syria and Anatolia with Persia. By the 8th century CA it had become the principal city of northern Mesopotamia.Western travellers visited Mosul included Emile Botta, a French archaeologist, Austen Henry Layard, British who unearthed Assyrian civilization at Khorsabad and Nineveh in the 1840s the devout remembered their prophet Zephaniah 2:13: Gertrude Bell visited Al Mosul and reported this in her book Amurath to Amurath in which she describes a meeting with one of the nobilities. The famous writer, Agatha Christae, lived in Mosul whilst her second husband, an archaeologist, was involved in the excavation in Nimrod. |
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| NEW | History of Mosul / Nineveh - compiled by Mrs Maureen Jalili | |
| Almosul
Dialect Nazar
N. Dhiab |
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| NEW | The
Music in the Land of Ashur by Dr Subhi Anwer Rasheed, Translation to
from Arabic by Dr Ismail Jalili and transcribed by Keith Jobling Response by Sabah Al-Damaluji - Additions |
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| NEW | الأسماء في الموصل Mosul Family Names | |
| NEW | منارة الحدباء قبل فوات الاوان: مركز دراسات الموصل يحتضن 10 توصيات لتدارك سقوط
منارة الحدباء احدى ابرز الشواهد التاريخية في مدينة الموصل- عبدالوهاب النعيمي Al Hadba' Minaret of Mosul before it is too late by Abdul Wahhab Al-Nuaimi (in Arabic) (You are invited to translate this article to other languages) |
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| The Babylonian Calendar | ||
| Jewish Mosul Revisited: Jewish heartbreak and hope in Nineveh, By Carlos C. Huerta يهود الموصل | ||
| On Arabic alphabet: Resumé of a lecture with slides in the London Esperanto Club. Hussain AL-Amily | ||
| Article: Mosul, Iraq from facts sheet | ||
| Metti Convent, Mosul - Dair Metti دير 'مار متى' | ||
| Nimrood
treasures found at the basement of the Iraq Central Bank كنوز الملك النمرود الذي حكم العراق موضوعة في اسفل مبنى البنك المركزي العراقي |
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| Tour in Mosul | ||
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