What is "karemlash"

Karemlash (, ; also spelled Karemles, Karemlish) is an ancient Assyrian town in northern Iraq located less than south east of Mosul.

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. Karemlash 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, Karemlash 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). Residents of the town fled for Iraqi Kurdistan following the invasion of the town by ISIS in August 2014.