Nineveh Plains is a region in Nineveh Governorate in Iraq. Located to the north and east of the city Mosul, it is the only Christian-majority region in Iraq and has been a gathering point for Iraqi Ch
Saint Matthew Monastery, overlooking Bashiqa and Bartella, between the Kurdistan Region and Iraq 32
Views around al Qosh at the edge of the Nineveh Plains 12
Chaldean Catholic monastery of Rabban Hormizd in al Qosh 03
Monastery of Saint Matthew overlooking the Nineveh Plains 03
The Syriac language, also known natively in its spoken form in early Syriac literature as Edessan, the Mesopotamian language and Aramaic, is an Eastern Middle Aramaic dialect. Classical Syriac is the
Nineveh Plains
…Nineveh Plains (Classical Syriac: ܦܩܥܬܐ ܕܢܝܢܘܐ, romanized: Pqaʿtā ḏ-Nīnwē, Modern Syriac: ܕܫܬܐ ܕܢܝܢܘܐ, romanized: Daštā d-Ninwe; Arabic: سهل نينوى, romanized: Sahl Naynawā; Kurdish…
An 11th-century Syriac manuscript
Late Syriac text, written in Madnhāyā script, from Thrissur, Kerala, India, 1799
An ancient mosaic from Edessa, from the 2nd century AD, with inscriptions in early Edessan Aramaic (Old Syriac)