Author: Mosul » Sat Jul 30, 2005 2:05 am
City in Iraq with approximately 1.3 million inhabitants (2005 estimate), situated in the northwestern part of the country, on the west bank of Tigris, and
close to the ruined Assyrian city of Nineveh.
The economical base of the city is production of cereals and livestock, oil production, oil refineries, cement factories, cotton products, textile mills, and tanneries. Even though muslin is no longer produced here, Mosul is the city that named the product.
The population of Mosul is principally Kurdish, but with a large minority of Arabs, Christian Assyrians, and a smaller minority of Turkomans.
Mosul has many ancient buildings, of which the Great Mosque, the Red Mosque, and the Mosque of Nabi Jarjis are the most famous. The town centre is dominated by a maze of streets and attractive 19th century houses.
That is from Encyclopedia of the Orient
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