Nahla Ismail
Nahla may refer to: * Nahla, Iraq, a valley in northern Iraq * Nahla (name), an Arabic feminine given name meaning "drink of water" or “honey bee” * ''Nahla'' (film), a 1979 Algerian film See also * Nahala (other) Nahala ( he, נחלה) means either "heritage" / "inheritance", or "homestead" / "estate". Also spelled nachala and nahalah. When followed by a connected term, the suffix -t is added, thus becoming nahalat (as a feminine noun in the construct form) ...

Nahla, Iraq
Nahla Valley ( ar, سهل نهلا, syr, ܢܚܠܐ, ku, نه‌هلێ, translit=Nehlê) is a geographic region located in the province of Dohuk in the Akre District, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The Sapna valley lies to the northwest and is separated by a mountain range, and the city of Akre is to the south, separated by another mountain range. It is bound by the Greater Zab River to the north and east, and the Khazir River to the west. History Most of the Assyrians living in Nahla, which number around 20,000, moved there from Hakkari after the Assyrian genocide that occurred during the First World War. However, some villages were emptied in the 1960s when fights between the Iraqi government and Kurdish separatists forced most of their inhabitants to flee to Baghdad and Mosul. Some scarcely populated villages were completely destroyed later on during the Anfal campaign in the 1980s as well. The population of the valley grew considerably following the Iraq War, as many Assyrians ...
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