Iraqi and Kuwaiti Cities
Over a million
Selected smaller cities or former cities of historical note
Name | Alternate names |
Kalhu | Nimrud, Calah, Kalakh |
Ninua7 | Nineue, Nineveh |
Lalish | Lalis |
Amadiyah | Amedi |
As Sulaymaniyah | Sulaymaniyah |
Assur | Ashur, Ansarki, Ašur (اشور), Qal'at Sherqat |
Σελεύκεια (Seleukeia)8 | Seuleceia |
Dur-Kurigalzu | Aqar Quf |
Al-Karbala | Karbala |
Akkad | Accad, Agade |
Babilu | Babylon, Babel, Kadingirra, Karanduniah, Babulon |
Κτησιφων (Ktesiphon)7 | Thesiphon |
Isin | |
Nibbur | Nippur, Nibru, نففر (Nuffar or Niffer) |
an Najaf | |
Ur | Urimki |
Uruk | Erech, Unug, Orchoë, Warká |
Lagash | |
Hatra | al-Hadr |
Samarra | |
Footnotes
1. world-gazetteer.com, Iraq cities page, accessed 1/18/2010.
2. Or Baghdad
3. Or Mosul or Mossul (list from world-gazetteer.com, Iraq cities page, accessed 1/18/2010).
4. Or Basra, Bassora, Bassorah, Busorra, Busra, Busrah (list from world-gazetteer.com, Iraq cities page, accessed 1/18/2010).
5. Or Irbil, Erbil, Arbela, Hawler (list, except for Hawler, from world-gazetteer.com, Iraq cities page, accessed 1/18/2010).
6. Or Kuwayt, Kuwait, Koweit, Qurayn, Qurein (list from world-gazetteer.com, Iraq cities page, accessed 1/18/2010).
7. In the الموصل (al-Mawsil) metropolitan area.
8. Σελεύκεια (Seleukeia) and Κτησιφων (Ktesiphon) were on opposite banks of the Dijlah (Tigris) River.