Possible Clues:

• Bliss in getting back, away from a city
• Fewer than ten at Victory Day hotel in wicked city
• Ancient city square very English at the outskirts
• Its ruins are across the Tigris from Mosul
• Leader of angels ejected from paradise in flipping old city
• 'Quinquireme of -- from distant Ophir' (Masefield)
• City where Jonah preached
• Old capital Kipling mentions nine to five, eh?
• 9 to 5, he goes round the old city
• Jonah's destination