Alqosh

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Alqosch or Alqusch ( Syro -Aramaic ܐ ܠ ܩ ܘ ܫ, Arabic القوش, DMG al - QUS ) is an Assyrian town in Iraq. It is located about 30 km north of Mosul in Nineveh plains of the province of the same name. The name Alqosch is Aramaic and means " The God of Righteousness ".

The story Alqoschs dates back to the ancient Assyrian Empire, possibly even further back. The first mention of Alqosch found in the time of Sennacherib about 750 BC, in the form of wall paintings in Sennacherib's palace, which was discovered in Tel Qwenjeq. About 3 km west of the town are the ruins of Shayro Meliktha.

The cliff dwellings of Alqosh are along the mountain slopes, to the top of the plateau, distributed. They are similarly decorated as the other colonies of the city of Nineveh.

Identification with Elkosch

Elkosch, the birthplace of the prophet Nahum, could be identical according to the thesis of Austen Henry Layard with today Alqosch, as in the neighborhood not only Assyrian rock art, but in its neighboring Raban Hormuzd also a famous monastery with the graves of Christian saints its situated. Layard, who toured the area in 1847, wrote this: "One very general according to tradition it contains [ Alkosch ] the grave of the Prophet Nahum, the Alkoschiten, as he is called in the introduction to his prophecies. " Layard visited the grave personally noticed but added: " the building containing the grave is of modern design. Inscriptions or fragments of antiquity are around this place around not to be found. the origin of the tradition, and how long it is in connection with the village of Alkosch, I do not know. " This theory says that the conditions do not match the specifications made by Nahum in his book from his home.

Places in Alqosch

Various sites remain important for Alqoschnayes.

  • Gu'ppa D' Mmaya (water cave ) in the north.
  • Gu'ppa Ssmoqa (the red cave ) in the north.
  • Gu'ppetha D' Toomin ( small cave of Toomin ) in the north.
  • Gu'ppa D ' Magoar Gama ( the thundering cave ) in the northeast.
  • Shweetha D' Gannaweh ( night camp of the robbers ) is a mountain in the north. Some experts on the history of Alqush are of the opinion that Shweetha D' Ganaweh was a place of the Assyrian god S ى in.
  • Rommta D' Jwannqeh ( Hill of Youth) in the northwest.
  • Khoosha ( the container ) in the northwest
  • Raoolla D' Mmaya ( the Vaser Valley ) to the west.
  • Gu'ppa D' Hatta pure ( Cave of the carders ).
  • Kerrma D' Raysha ( the vineyard ), the vineyard is located on the tip of the salvor.
  • Besqeen.
  • Galeeya D' Qasha Hanna ( the valley of priests Hanna ) in the north.
  • Galeeya D' Dayra or Galeeya D' Qadeesha ( Valley of the Saints or the valley of the monastery ), a valley to the monastery of Rabban Hormizd, in northeastern Alqosch.
  • Galeeya Dnerba D' Deyoeh ( Valley of the Devil ) in the east of the monastery of Rabban Hormizd.
  • Gu'ppetha D' Hllwi ( D' Hllabi ) where the sheep were milked.
  • Gu'ppetha D' Rrabi Rabbah, a small cave to the high priest.
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