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Karamlish (Syriac: ܟܪܡܠܫ, Arabic: كرمليس‎; also spelled Karemles, Karemlesh) is an ancient Assyrian town in Assyria, northern Iraq located less than 18 miles (29 km) south east of Mosul.
There are between 600 and 650 families in Karamlish, a total of around 10,000 people. The vast majority of the population is ethnically Assyrian.
There is a small Armenian comunity of nearly 100 people living in the town.
It is surrounded by many hills that along with it made up the historical Assyrian city of Kar-Mullissi, which means "the city of Mullisi" in Akkadian. Karamlish also had many other names It is believed to have been called Er-Elo-Bano ("city of the god Bano") during the reign of the Assyrian king Belu-bani (1700–1691 BC). During the reign of the Sumerian dynasty of Ur around 3000 BC, Karamlish was called Kar-Denkir-Neen-Leel, meaning "the city of the goddess Ninlil" (the wife of the god Enlil and the mother of Sumerian god Ninurta.)

Liberated by ISF from Daesh on 17 october 2016