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Mosul   /mˈoʊsəl/   Listen
Mosul

noun
1.
A city in northern Iraq on the Tigris across from the ruins of Nineveh.





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... an expedition was sent by the British Museum (1877-1879), under the conduct of Hormuzd Rassam, to continue his work at Nineveh and its neighbourhood. Excavations in the mounds of Balaw[a]t, called Imgur-Bel by the Assyrians, 15 m. east of Mosul, resulted in the discovery of a small temple dedicated to the god of dreams by Assur-nazir-pal III. (883 B.C.), containing a stone coffer or ark in which were two inscribed tables of alabaster of rectangular shape, as well as of a palace which ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 - "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" • Various


Words linked to "Mosul" :   Iraq, urban center, Al-Iraq, city, Republic of Iraq, metropolis, Irak


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