What to See in Iraq
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Southern Palace
Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85…
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Malwiya
The Great Mosque of Samarra is a mosque from the 9th century CE located in Samarra, Iraq.
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Ashur (Qal'at Sherqat)
Aššur, also known as Ashur and Qal'at Sherqat, was the capital of the Old Assyrian Empire, the Middle Assyrian Empire, and for a time, of…
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Samarra
Samarra is a city in Iraq. It stands on the east bank of the Tigris in the Saladin Governorate, 125 kilometers north of Baghdad.
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Nineveh
Nineveh was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located on the outskirts of Mosul in modern-day northern Iraq.
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National Museum of Iraq
The Iraq Museum is the national museum of Iraq, located in Baghdad. It is sometimes informally called the National Museum of Iraq.
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Nineveh
Nineveh, also known in early modern times as Kouyunjik, was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located in the modern-day city…
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Uruk
Uruk, the archeological site known today as Warka, was an ancient city in the Near East, located east of the current bed of the Euphrates…
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Kish
Kish is an important archaeological site in Babil Governorate. It was occupied from the Ubaid to Hellenistic periods.
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Sibaq al Mansur
Horse racing is an equestrian performance activity, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys over a set distance for…
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Dur-Sharrukin
Dur-Sharrukin, present day Khorsabad, was the Assyrian capital in the time of Sargon II of Assyria.
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Ziggurat of Ur
The Ziggurat of Ur is a Neo-Sumerian ziggurat in what was the city of Ur near Nasiriyah, in present-day Dhi Qar Province, Iraq.
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Shuruppak
Shuruppak, modern Tell Fara, was an ancient Sumerian city situated about 55 kilometres south of Nippur and 30 kilometers north of ancient…
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Shanadar cave
Shanidar Cave is an archaeological site located on Bradost Mountain in the Erbil Governorate of Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq.
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Girsu
Girsu was a city of ancient Sumer, situated some 25 km northwest of Lagash, at the site of what is now Tell Telloh in Dhi Qar Governorate,…
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Bad-tibira
Bad-tibira, "Wall of the Copper Worker", or "Fortress of the Smiths", identified as modern Tell al-Madineh, between Ash Shatrah and Tell as…
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Mosul Dam
Mosul Dam, formerly known as Saddam Dam, is the largest dam in Iraq. It is located on the Tigris river in the western governorate of Nineveh…
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University Of Sulaimani New Campus
The University of Sulaimani is a public university located in the city of Sulaymaniyah in Kurdistan Region - Iraq.
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Tell Kunara
Tell Kunara is an ancient Near East archaeological site about 5 kilometres southwest of Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
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Badr Shakir al-Sayyab
Badr Shakir al Sayyab was a leading Iraqi poet, well known throughout the Arab world and one of the most influential Arab poets of all time.
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