Mosul

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 and is now capital of the Nineveh Governorate. More than a million people lived there when the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant captured it in early June 2014. In July 2017, the Iraqi Army with help from Kurdish Peshmerga troops and other militias took the city back.

Mosul الموصل
City
The Old Bridge of Mosul, with the Mosul Grand Mosque in the background
Nickname:  Nīnwē ܢܝ݂ܢܘܹܐ
Mosul Location of Mosul within Iraq Show map of Iraq Mosul Mosul (Asia) Show map of Asia
Coordinates: 36.34°N 43.13°E / 36.34; 43.13
Country	Iraq
Governorate	Nineveh Governorate
Area
• City	180 km2 (70 sq mi)
Elevation [1]	223 m (732 ft)
Population  (2015)
• City	664,221
• Urban	Unknown (estimates range between 750,000 and 1,500,000[2]
	UNData 1987[3]
Demonym	Moslawi
Time zone	UTC+3 (AST)
Area code	60

Further reading

Published in the 19th century

• Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Mosul", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
• "Mosul". Edinburgh Gazetteer (2nd ed.). Edinburgh: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. 1829.
• Josiah Conder (1834), "Mosul", Dictionary of Geography, Ancient and Modern, London: T. Tegg
• Charles Wilson, ed. (1895), "Mosul", Handbook for Travellers in Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Persia, etc., London: John Murray, ISBN 9780524062142, OCLC 8979039 {{citation}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
• Edward Balfour, ed. (1871). "Mosul". Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia (2nd ed.). Madras.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Published in the 20th century

• "Mosul", Palestine and Syria (5th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1912
• "Mosul". Encyclopaedia of Islam. E.J. Brill. 1934. p. 609+. ISBN 9789004097926. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
• Jacqueline Griffin (1996), "Mosul", in Trudy Ring (ed.), Middle East and Africa, International Dictionary of Historic Places, Routledge, ISBN 9781884964039

Published in the 21st century

• C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Mosul". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. ISBN 978-9004153882.
• Michael R.T. Dumper; Bruce E. Stanley, eds. (2007), "Mosul", Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, Santa Barbara, USA: ABC-CLIO (published 2008), ISBN 978-1576079195