ALQOSH is a very considerable CHRISTIAN village. The inhabitants, who were formerly PURE CHALDEANS have been converted to Roman Catholicism. It contains, according to a very general tradition, the tomb of Nahum the prophet-the Alqoshite, as he is called in the introduction of his prophecies.
Source:
Nineveh & its Remains by Austen Henry Layard (Archaeologist, Historian and Cuneiformist)
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