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Great Mosque of Amedi

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “historic mosque in the town of amadiya”. Today it says “mosque in the town of amêdî”.
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Mosque in Amadiya, Kurdistan, Iraq For similarly named mosques, see List of grand mosques . The Great Mosque of Amêdî ( Arabic : جامع العمادية الكبير Kurdish : مزگەفتی گەورەی ئامێدی ), also spelled as the Great Mosque of Amadiya , is a mosque in the town of Amêdî , Kurdistan , Iraq . It was founded in 1177 CE during the Abbasid era , and has been renovated several times throughout its history. "ذو الكفل” يجمع المسلمين والمسيحيين واليهود في العمادية العراقية .

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “historic mosque in the town of amadiya”. Today it says “mosque in the town of amêdî”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

historic mosque in the town of amadiya

Now

mosque in the town of amêdî

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