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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Hatra' has mentioned 'City' in the following places:
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Hatra was an ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia located in present-day eastern Nineveh Governorate in northern Iraq. | WIKI |
The city lies 290xc2xa0km (180xc2xa0mi) northwest of Baghdad and 110xc2xa0km (68xc2xa0mi) southwest of Mosul. | WIKI |
Hatra was a strongly fortified caravan city and capital of the small Kingdom of Hatra, located between the Roman and Parthian/Persian empires. | WIKI |
The city was officially called Beit xcaxbeElxc4x81hxc4x81xcaxbe xf0x90xa3xa1xf0x90xa3xa9xf0x90xa3xb5 xf0x90xa3xa0xf0x90xa3xabxf0x90xa3xa4xf0x90xa3xa0 "House of God", in Hatran Aramaic inscriptions[2] and once recorded as "Enclosure of Shamash" (xe1xb8xa5trxcaxbe d-xc5xa1mxc5xa1 xf0x90xa3xa7xf0x90xa3xa8xf0x90xa3xa3xf0x90xa3xa0 xf0x90xa3xa3xf0x90xa3xb4xf0x90xa3xacxf0x90xa3xb4) on a coin. | WIKI |
There is no archeological information on the city before the Parthian period but settlement in the area likely dates back to at least the Seleucid period. | WIKI |
[3] Later on, the city became the capital of possibly the first Arab Kingdom in the chain of Arab cities running from Hatra, in the northeast, via Palmyra, Baalbek and Petra, in the southwest. | WIKI |
Hatra became an important fortified frontier city and played an important role in the Second Parthian War, withstanding repeated attacks by the Roman Empire. | WIKI |
During the 2nd century CE the city repulsed sieges by both Trajan (116/117) and Septimius Severus (198/199). | WIKI |
[4] The traditional stories of the fall of Hatra tell of al-Nadirah, daughter of the King of Araba, who betrayed the city into the hands of Shapur as she fell in love with him. | WIKI |
Hatra was the best preserved and most informative example of a Parthian city. | WIKI |
A temenos (xcfx84xcexadxcexbcxcexb5xcexbdxcexbfxcfx82) surrounded the principal sacred buildings in the city's centre. | WIKI |
The city was famed for its fusion of Greek, Mesopotamian, Canaanite, Aramean and Arabian pantheons, known in Aramaic as Beixe1xb9xaf xc4x94lxc4x81hxc4x81 ("House of God"). | WIKI |
The city had temples to Nergal (Assyrian-Babylonian and Akkadian), Hermes (Greek), Atargatis (Syro-Aramaean), Allat, Shamiyyah (Arabian), and Shamash (the Mesopotamian sun god). | WIKI |
[14] In 1990, a Polish expedition of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology University of Warsaw recorded and studied the city's defense walls. | WIKI |
The pro-Iraqi government Popular Mobilization Forces captured the city on 26 April 2017. | WIKI |