al-Mawsil

Mosul‎ or al-Mawṣil is a chief town in northern Iraq. Located approximately four hundred km north of Baghdad, Mosul stands on the west bank of the Tigris, contrary the historical Assyrian town of Nineveh on the east financial institution. The metropolitan place has grown to embody great regions on both the "Left Bank" and the "Right Bank", as the two banks are described by the locals as compared to the go with the flow path of Tigris. At the start of the twenty first century, Mosul and its surroundings had an ethnically and religiously diverse populace; most people of Mosul's population were Arabs, with Assyrians, Armenians, Turkmens, Kurds, Yazidis, Shabakis, Mandaeans, Kawliya, Circassians in addition to different, smaller ethnic minorities.

In religious terms, mainstream Sunni Islam became the biggest religion, but with a sizable number of followers of the Salafi motion and Christianity, as well as Shia Islam, Sufism, Yazidism, Shabakism, Yarsanism and Mandaeism. Mosul's population grew unexpectedly across the flip of the millennium and with the aid of 2004, the town's population turned into estimated to be 1,846,500.