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Mosul District ( Arabic: قضاء الموصل) is a district in Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. Its administrative center is the city of Mosul. Other settlements include Al-Qayyarah, Al-Shurah, Hamam al-Alil, Al-Mahlaah, and Hamidat. The district is predominantly Sunni Arab, with minorities of Assyrians, Turkmen and Kurds located in the ...
Mosul, in italiano più raramente Mossul, è una città dell'Iraq, capoluogo del governatorato di Ninive. Mawṣil è il nome che diedero gli Arabi musulmani all'antica Ninive, la capitale dell'Impero assiro. Il sito di Ninive si trova sulla sponda orientale del fiume Tigri, mentre Mosul è sorta sulla sponda occidentale.
The city is considered the second-largest city in Iraq in terms of population and area after the capital Baghdad. Mosul is approximately 400 km (250 mi) north of Baghdad on the Tigris river.
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 below, by governorate (with capital in parentheses):
The Battle of Mosul ( Arabic: معركة الموصل, Ma'rakat al-Mawṣil; Kurdish: شەڕی مووسڵ, Şerrê Mûsilê) was a major battle initiated by the Iraqi Government forces with allied militias, the Kurdistan Regional Government, and international forces to retake the city of Mosul from the Islamic State (ISIL), which had seized the city years prior in June 2...
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.
The fall of Mosul occurred between 4 and 10 June 2014, when Islamic State (IS) insurgents, initially led by Abu Abdulrahman al-Bilawi, captured Mosul from the Iraqi Army, led by Lieutenant General Mahdi Al-Gharrawi.
