Nineveh or Ninawa Governorate (Arabic: محافظة نينوى, romanized: muḥāfaẓat Naynawā; Syriac: ܗܘܦܪܟܝܐ ܕܢܝܢܘܐ, romanized: Hoparkiya d’Ninwe, Sorani Kurdish:...
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Mosul that lies on the eastern bank of the Tigris, and the country's Nineveh Governorate takes its name from it. It was the largest city in the world for...
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Governorate Council elections in the Nineveh Governorate of Iraq were held on January 30, 2005, simultaneously with the national legislative election....
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proposed governorates: Tal Afar, from part of Ninawa Governorate Tuz Khurmatu, from part of Saladin Governorate Nineveh Plains from the Ninawa Governorate. Halabja...
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Mosul (redirect from Mosul, Nineveh)
romanized: Māwṣil) is a major city in northern Iraq, serving as the capital of Nineveh Governorate. The city is considered the second-largest city in Iraq, by population...
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Kurdish: دهشتا نهینهوا, romanized: Deşta Neynewa) is a region in Nineveh Governorate in Iraq, to the north and east of the city Mosul. Control over the...
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Al-Hasakah Governorate of Syria. It was established on 27 May 1969, previously part of Nineveh Governorate. The population of the governorate was estimated...
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The Nineveh Plain Protection Units (Classical Syriac: ܚܕܝ̈ܘܬ ܣܬܪܐ ܕܫܛܚܐ ܕܢܝܢܘܐ Ḥḏāywāṯ Settārā da-Šṭāḥā d-Nīnwē; Arabic: وحدات حماية سهل نينوى) or NPU...
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many problems for Iraqis and brought along unintended consequences. Nineveh Governorate includes Aqra District and the northern part of Al-Shikhan District...
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those of the Nineveh Plain Protection Units; the key difference being that the NPF and the BNDP advocated for a Nineveh Plain Governorate administered...
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Kurdish tribes (section Nineveh Governorate)
Zangana tribe The following tribes and confederations are present in Nineveh Governorate: Aldexî tribe Adiyan tribe Aldîn tribe Bekran tribe Cefrî tribe Çêlkan...
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Iraq and are particularly concentrated in the Nineveh Plains and Sinjar areas in the Nineveh Governorate in northern Iraq. The following settlements in...
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Qaraqosh wedding fire (category 21st century in Nineveh Governorate)
Hall during an Assyrian wedding in Qaraqosh, Al-Hamdaniya District, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. The fireworks accident was triggered by the ignition of ceiling...
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to: Nineveh Governorate, a province of Iraq Nineveh Township, Johnson County, Indiana Nineveh, Indiana, an unincorporated community Nineveh Creek, a river...
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Nimrud (category History of Nineveh Governorate)
kilometre (1,100 yd) of the modern-day Assyrian village of Noomanea in Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. The name Nimrud was recorded as the local name by Carsten...
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Abu Maria al-Qahtani (category People from Nineveh Governorate)
al-Juburi was born on 1 June 1976 in Al-Shura in the Mosul District of Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. Prior to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, he was a student at...
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representation calculated using the Webster/Sainte-Laguë method with the governorates as constituencies, the 2021 elections were conducted under single non-transferable...
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One reserved seat is allotted for each of five governorates: Baghdad, Duhok, Erbil, Kirkuk and Nineveh. At the time of voting, only about 200,000 Christians...
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Ministry of Defence, and was appointed as a security supervisor for Nineveh Governorate on August 15, 2017, and before that, he was the commander of Baghdad...
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multitude of human rights abuses, including illegal land seizures in the Nineveh Governorate and election corruption. While the party claims to represent the...
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Hatra (category History of Nineveh Governorate)
ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia located in present-day eastern Nineveh Governorate in northern Iraq. The ruins of the city lie 290 km (180 mi) northwest...
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remaining in the Middle East today live in Iraq, primarily in the governorates of Nineveh and Duhok. There is a disagreement among scholars and in Yazidi...
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Districts of Iraq (section Nineveh Governorate)
Iraq's 18 governorates are subdivided into 120 districts (kaza). The district usually bears the same name as the district capital. The districts are listed...
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open list form of party-list proportional representation, using the governorates as the constituencies, is the electoral system used. The counting system...
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(Al-Mada'in, المدائن) Eridu (إريدو) Hatra (حضر) Kish (كيش) Lagash (لجش) Nineveh (ܢܝܢܘܐ) (نينوى) Nippur (نيبور) Nuzi (Nuzu) Samarra Shenna (Sinn Barimma)...
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in Babylon, near present-day Hillah, Babylon Governorate, Iraq; or Nineveh, Mosul, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. Lighthouse of Alexandria, in Alexandria...
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Battle of Mosul (2016–2017) (category 21st century in Nineveh Governorate)
Coming, Nineveh" (قادمون يا نينوى; Qadimun Ya Naynawa), began on 16 October 2016, with forces besieging ISIL-controlled areas in the Nineveh Governorate surrounding...
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-led coalition airstrike on an Islamic State headquarters in Iraq's Nineveh Governorate injured Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and others. 10...
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family of Chaldean Catholics in 1989 in the town of Alqosh, in the Nineveh Governorate. At some point, he moved to Baghdad and remained settled in Sadr...
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Nadia Murad (category People from Nineveh Governorate)
Nadia Murad Basee Taha (Kurdish: نادیە موراد بەسێ تەھا; Arabic: نادية مراد باسي طه; born 10 March 1993) is an Iraqi-born Yazidi human rights activist based...
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