Ninawa Province

Ninawa (, , Syriac-Aramaic: ܢܝܢܘܐ Nīnwē) is a province in northren Iraq, an the Arabic name for the biblical ceety of Nineveh in Assirie. It haes an aurie o 37,323 square kilometres (14,410 sq mi) an an estimatit population o 2,453,000 fowk in 2003. Its chief ceety an provincial caipital is Mosul, which lies athort the Tigris river frae the ruins o auncient Nineveh. Tal Afar is an aw a major ceety athin the region. Prior tae 1976, it wis cried Mosul Province an includit the present-day Dohuk Province an aw.

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Category:Provinces o Iraq
Category:Assirie
Category:Fertile Crescent