Mosul is a major city in northern Iraq, serving as capital of the Nineveh Governorate, and is the second-largest city in Iraq after Baghdad, situated on the banks of the Tigris river. Across the river lie the ruins of ancient Nineveh, once capital of the Assyrian Empire, and Mosul itself grew into a major medieval trading and religious center before suffering extensive destruction during the 2016 to 2017 battle to retake the city from the Islamic State.
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Area (sq km) Founding Year Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Latitude36.341667 degrees north 1 In the Other Atlases
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Source Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (Wikipedia)Article textQuote, Article text
He travelled extensively and resided in Mosul (in 1189) where he studied the works of al-Suhrawardi before travelling on to Damascus (1190) and the camp of Saladin outside Acre (1191).
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1. Mosul (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia article wikitext, Infobox settlement, area_total_km2 field
180
Wikipedia article wikitext, Infobox settlement, elevation_m field
223
Infobox: population_total
1792000
Wikipedia article wikitext, Infobox settlement, population_as_of field
2023
- Wikipedia article wikitext, Infobox settlement, coordinates field (coord template 36|20|30|N, converted from degrees/minutes/seconds to decimal)
- Wikipedia article wikitext, Infobox settlement, coordinates field (coord template 43|7|45|E, converted from degrees/minutes/seconds to decimal)
View the Source 2. Wikidata: Mosul
- Wikidata Q83317, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
Wikidata Q83317 P1249, class allow-list match, knownqid pass (w-bbfill-geography5-0926)
P1249 value year 700
- In Group: Cities of Western Asia (World), Wikipedia infobox, country field
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