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Ankawa

Ankawa is a small town located in the north of Iraq, 4 km from Arbil. Its population is approximately 20 000 habitants. Almost all of them belong to Chaldean catholic church.

The town is, in practice a suburb of Irbil, and is adjacent to Irbil International Airport.

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Baghdad is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, with which it is coterminous. Having a municipal population estimated at 7.5 million, it is the largest city in Iraq and the second largest in the Arab World (after Cairo). Located on the River Tigris, the city dates back to the 8th century and was once the centre of the Muslim world.

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Basra

Basra (also called Al-Basrah or Basorah) is the capital of Basra Province, Iraq, and had an estimated population of 3,800,200 as of 2009. Basra is also Iraq's main port, although it is incapable of deep water access, which is handled at the port of Umm Qasr. The city is the historic location of Sumer, the home of Sinbad the Sailor, and a proposed location of the Garden of Eden. It also played an important role in early Islamic history, being built in 636 CE, or 14 AH. It is Iraq's second largest and most populous city after Baghdad.

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Duhok

Duhok (also spelled Dohuk, Dehok or Dahok) is a city in northern Iraq and is the capital of Dahuk Governorate in Iraqi Kurdistan. It has about 241,000 inhabitants, mostly consisting of Kurds and Assyrians. According to some sources, the name "Dohuk" comes from Kurmanji Kurdish meaning "Du gog". Circled by mountains along the Tigris river, Dahuk has a growing tourist industry. Dahuk's population grew extremely since the 1990s as the rural population moved to the cities, mostly consisting of Kurds though. The University of Dohuk, founded in 1992, is a renowned center for teaching and research in Dohuk.

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Irbil

Irbil (also written Arbil or Erbil) is believed to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and is the third-largest city in Iraq after Baghdad and Mosul. The city lies eighty kilometres (fifty miles) east of Mosul. The city is the capital of Kurdistan Autonomous Region and the Kurdistan Regional Government.

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Karbala

The city of Karbala (Kerbala) is in central Iraq. It is the capital of Karbala Governorate, and is the place of the death of Husain bin Ali in the year 680 AD. Shi'a Muslims consider Karbala to be one of their holiest cities after Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem and Najaf. The city is best known as the location of the Battle of Karbala.

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Khanaqin

Khanaqin (also spelt Khanakin and Xanaqin) is a city in eastern Iraq, south of Kurdish regions. It is located in the Diyala Governorate, near the Iranian border on a tributary of the Diyala River. Khanaqin is the administrative capital of the Khanaqin District. This District contains several cities such as As-Sadiyah and Jalula as well as hundreds of villages. Khanaqin is divided into two parts by the Alwand River, this river has played a significant role in land cultivation and in establishment of a strong rural society in the area. The river is considered by the people of Khanaqin as a symbol for their unity and Kurdish identity.

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Kirkuk

Kirkuk (also spelled Karkuk or Kerkuk), is the capital of Kirkuk Governorate. It is located 250 kilometres (156 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad. The Kirkuk region lies among the Pir Magrun (Gudrun) to the north-east, the Zab River and the Tigris River to the west, the Hamrin Mountains to the south, and the Sirwan (Diyala) River to the south-east. It stands on the site of the ancient Assyrian capital of Arrapha, which sits near the Khasa River on the ruins of a 5,000-year-old settlement (Kirkuk Citadel.) Arrapha reached great importance under the Assyrians in the 10th and 11th centuries BC. Because of the strategic geographical location of the city, Kirkuk was the battle ground for three empires, Assyria, Babylonia, and Media , who controlled the city at various times. Kirkuk is the centre of the northern Iraqi petroleum industry. It is an historically and ethnically mixed city populated by mostly Kurds, Assyrians, Turkmen and Arabs. City is sometimes referred to as the "unofficial capital" of Turkmeneli

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Mosul

Mosul is capital of the Ninawa Governorate, some 400 km (250 miles) northwest of Baghdad. The original city stands on the west bank of the Tigris River, opposite the ancient city of Nineveh on the east bank, but the metropolitan area has now grown to encompass substantial areas on both banks, with five bridges linking the two sides. Although for many years it was considered to be a Kurdish city, the majority of its population is now Arab and it does not form part of the area controlled by the Kurdistan Regional Government. It is Iraq's second largest city after Baghdad. The fabric Muslin, long manufactured here, is named after this city. Another historically important product of the area is Mosul marble. In 1987, the city's population was 664,221 people; the 2002 population estimate was 1,740,000, and by 2008 was estimated to be 1,800,000. The city is a historic center for the Nestorian Christianity of the Assyrians, containing the tombs of several Old Testament prophets such as Jonah and Nahum.

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Sulaimany

Sulaimany (also spelt Sulaimaniyah and Silemani) is a city in the east of Iraqi Kurdistan. It is situated in the northeast of Iraq, and is the capital of As Sulaymaniyah Governorate. Sulaimany is surrounded by the Azmar Range (1700m), Goizja Range (1525m) and the Qaiwan Range in the north east, Baranan Mountain (1373m) in the south and the Tasluje Hills in the west. The plain of Sharazor lies to the east stretching up to 45km in length and 15 km in width. The city is 853m above sea level, and has a semi-arid climate which is very hot at summer and very cold at winter. Sulaymany served as the historic capital of the Kurdish principality of Baban from 1784 to 1850. The modern city of Sulaimany was founded in 1784 by the Kurdish prince Ibrahim Pashay Baban who named it after his father Sulaiman Pasha. Because it was founded as the capital of a powerful Kurdish principality, Sulaimany has developed into a large city with a population of about 759,508 people. It is the cultural centre of the Sorani-speaking Kurds and an important economic centre for Kurdistan.

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Telkaif

Telkaif (also spelt Tel Keipeh, Tel Keppe, or TalKayf), one of the largest Assyrian (Chaldean-rite) towns in Iraq, is located in the Ninawa Governorate, less than 8 miles North East of Mosul (Nineveh) in northern Iraq. Telkaif is now considered a suburb of Mosul.

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