Alqosh

Nineveh Governorate · Iraq

Alqosh, Iraq
Photo: Chaldean, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

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An ancient Assyrian Christian town nestled beneath a rocky escarpment, with old stone houses, a hilltop monastery and a revered prophet's tomb. Its lanes climb toward caves cut into the cliff.

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