Photographer: Saad Salem  (Karma=89003)
Mosul, 
About: A guy looking at the big black box by some smaller black boxes.
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Portfolio: Mosul the old Nineveh.
Portfolio Description: Built on the site of an earlier Assyrian fortress, Mosul succeeded Nineveh as the Tigris bridgehead of the road that linked Syria and Anatolia with Persia. By the 8th century AD it had become the principal city of northern Mesopotamia. In succeeding centuries a number of independent dynasties ruled the city, which reached its political zenith under the Zangid dynasty (AD 1127–1222) and under Sultan Badr ad-Din Lu'lu' (reigned 1222–59). Famous schools of metalwork and miniature painting arose in Mosul at this time, but the region's prosperity ended in 1258 when it was ravaged by the Mongols under Hülegü. The Ottoman Turks ruled the region from 1534 to 1918, during which time Mosul became a trade center of the Ottoman Empire and the headquarters of a political subdivision. After World War I the Mosul area was occupied by Britain until a border settlement (c. 1926) placed it in Iraq rather than in Turkey. The city's commercial importance thereafter declined because it was cut off from the rest of the former Ottoman Empire.
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