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Shekhan District
The Shekhan District (, ku, قەزای شێخان, Qeza Şêxan) is a district in the Nineveh Governorate with its capital at Ain Sifni. It is bordered by the Amadiya and Dahuk Districts of the Dahuk Governorate to the north, the Akre District to the east, Al-Hamdaniya District to the south, and the Tel Kaif District to the west. Baadre, considered the political capital of the Yazidis, is also in this district. History The Shekhan District was formed on December 16, 1924. After the 1935 Yazidi revolt, the district was placed under military control. Demographics It is mainly populated by Yazidis with a large Assyrian minority. See also *Assyrian homeland *Proposals for Assyrian autonomy in Iraq *List of Yazidi settlements The following is a list of Yazidi settlements in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Armenia, including both current and historical Yazidi settlements. Historically, Yazidis lived primarily in Iraq, Turkey, and Syria. However, events since the end of the ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Districts Of Iraq
Iraq's 18 governorates are subdivided into 120 districts (''kaza''). The district usually bears the same name as the district capital. The districts are listed below, by governorate (with capital in parentheses): Al Anbar Governorate * Al-Qa'im District ( Al-Qa'im) * Ar-Rutba District (Ar-Rutba) * Anah District (Anah) * Fallujah District ( Fallujah) * Haditha District (Haditha) * Hīt District (Hīt) * Ramadi District (Ramadi) * Rawah District ( Rawah) Muthanna Governorate * Al-Khidhir District ( Al-Khidhir) * Al-Rumaitha District (Al-Rumaitha) * Al-Salman District ( Al-Salman) * Al-Samawa District (Samawa) Qadisiyyah Governorate * Afaq District ( Afaq) * Al-Shamiya District ( Al-Shamiya) * Diwaniya District (Diwaniya) * Hamza District ( Hamza) Babil Governorate * Al-Mahawil District ( Al-Mahawil) * Al-Musayab District (Al-Musayab) * Hashimiya District ( Hashimiya) * Hilla District (Hilla) Baghdad Governorate * Administrative Districts in Baghdad Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baadre
Baadre (also written Ba'adra, Badra or Bathra, ( ar, باعدرة/باعذرة, ku, باعەدرێ, translit=Baedrê) is a town located in the Shekhan District of the Ninawa Governorate in northern Iraq. The town is located in the Nineveh Plains. It belongs to the disputed territories of Northern Iraq. According to 2014 statistics, Baadre's urban population was 9 835 and the rural population was 5 167. Baadre's residents are mostly Yazidis and is considered the political capital of the Yazidis as it has been the base of the group's leader, the Mir. The castle of the princely family is found here, as well as the mausoleum of the highly revered Mîr Alî Beg (Reign: 1899-1913). History The village was originally an Assyrian village known as Bet Edrai. In Ba'athist Iraq, the population of Baadre was deported because of their support for Peshmerga. According to Shamal Adeeb, who was the town's mayor at the time, the town and the 10 villages in the vicinity took in 2,028 displac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proposals For Assyrian Autonomy In Iraq
Since the early 20th century several proposals have been made for the establishment of an autonomous area or a independent state for the Syriac-speaking Assyrians in northern Iraq. Historical proposals * Urmia Manifesto of the United Free Assyria, 1917 * League of Nations proposed settlement for Assyrians, 1935 *United Nations Assyrian National Petition, 1945. * Bet-Nahrain Democratic Party case for Assyrian autonomy. Current proposals 19th governorate Currently, two major Assyrian parties (Assyrian Democratic Movement and Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council) call for a creation of a 19th governorate which will incorporate Shekhan, Al-Hamdaniya and Tel Keppe districts of Ninawa Governorate. This proposal is pushed by two above mentioned parties as a new governorate for all minorities living there. Various estimates say that new province population will have the following ethno-religious makeup: During June, 2017, a conference was held in Brussels dubbed, ''The Future ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assyrian Homeland
The Assyrian homeland, Assyria ( syc, ܐܬܘܪ, Āṯūr or syc, ܒܝܬ ܢܗܪ̈ܝܢ, Bêth Nahrin) refers to the homeland of the Assyrian people within which Assyrian civilisation developed, located in their indigenous Upper Mesopotamia. The territory that forms the Assyrian homeland is, similarly to the rest of Mesopotamia, currently divided between present-day Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria. In Iran, the Urmia Plain forms a thin margin of the ancestral Assyrian homeland in the north-west, and the only section of the Assyrian homeland beyond the Mesopotamian region. The majority of Assyrians in Iran currently reside in the capital city, Tehran. The Assyrians are indigenous Mesopotamians, descended from the Akkadians and Sumerians, who developed independent civilisation in the city of Assur on the eastern border of northern Mesopotamia. The territory that would encompass the Assyrian homeland however was divided through the centre by the Tigris River, with their indigenous Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DTIC
The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC, pronounced "Dee-tick") is the repository for research and engineering information for the United States Department of Defense (DoD). DTIC's services are available to DoD personnel, federal government personnel, federal contractors and selected academic institutions. The general public can access unclassified information through its public website. History The DTIC traces its history to the June 1945 formation of the Air Documents Research Center (ADRC), a joint effort of the US Army Air Force, US Navy and Royal Air Force to build a single collection of captured German aeronautical research, based in London. The ADRC was initially tasked with the sorting of the document collection into three broad groups; documents that would assist the war in the Pacific theater, documents of immediate intelligence interest to the United States or British forces and documents of interest for future research. With the ending of the war in 1945, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1935 Yazidi Revolt
The 1935 Yazidi revolt took place in Iraq in October 1935. The Iraqi government, under Yasin al-Hashimi, crushed a revolt by the Yazidi people of Jabal Sinjar against the imposition of conscription.Fuccaro, Nelinda. "Ethnicity, State Formation, and Conscription in Postcolonial Iraq: The Case of the Yazidi Kurds of Jabal Sinjar". ''International Journal of Middle East Studies'' Vol. 29, No. 4 (Nov., 1997), pp. 559-580JSTOR./ref> The Iraqi army, led by Bakr Sidqi, reportedly killed over 200 Yazidi and imposed martial law throughout the region. Parallel revolts opposing conscription also broke out that year in the northern (Kurdish populated) and mid-Euphrates (majorly Shia populated) regions of Iraq. The Yazidis of Jabal Sinjar constituted the majority of Iraqi Yazidi population - the third largest non-Muslim minority within the kingdom. In 1939, the region of Jabal Sinjar was once again put under military control, together with the Shekhan District. See also *List of modern con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dihok Governorate 2012
Duhok ( ku, دهۆک, translit=Dihok; ar, دهوك, Dahūk; syr, ܒܝܬ ܢܘܗܕܪܐ, Beth Nohadra) is a city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. It's the capital city of Duhok Governorate. History The city's origin dates back to the Stone Age, and it became part of the Assyrian Empire, then the Babylonian Empire before it fell into the hands of Achaemenid Empire after the Fall of Babylon, and subsequently fell into the hands of Alexander the Great and the Romans. It became an important center of Syriac Christianity where it was known as "ܒܝܬ ܢܘܗܕܪܐ" ''Beth Nohdry'', before fading out after the conquests of Mesopotamia by Tamerlane. According to Evliya Çelebi, the city was initially called ''Dohuk-e Dasinya,'' named after the militant Dasini tribe who were believers of Yazidism. The Yazidi population is still relatively significant, but has decreased due to persecution. This made it possible for Muslims, Christians and Jews to settle in the town. The city became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yazidis
Yazidis or Yezidis (; ku, ئێزیدی, translit=Êzidî) are a Kurmanji-speaking Endogamy, endogamous minority group who are indigenous to Kurdistan, a geographical region in Western Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran. The majority of Yazidis remaining in the Middle East today live in Iraq, primarily in the Governorates of Iraq, governorates of Nineveh Governorate, Nineveh and Duhok Governorate, Duhok. There is a disagreement among scholars and in Yazidi circles on whether the Yazidi people are a distinct ethnoreligious group or a religious sub-group of the Kurds, an Iranian peoples, Iranic ethnic group. Yazidism is the ethnic religion of the Yazidi people and is Monotheism, monotheistic in nature, having roots in a Ancient Iranian religion, pre-Zoroastrian Iranic faith. Since the spread of Islam began with the early Muslim conquests of the 7th–8th centuries, Persecution of Yazidis, Yazidis have faced persecution by Arabs and later by Turkish people, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tel Kaif District
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List Of Sovereign States
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty. The 206 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership within the United Nations System: 193 UN member states, 2 UN General Assembly non-member observer states, and 11 other states. The ''sovereignty dispute'' column indicates states having undisputed sovereignty (188 states, of which there are 187 UN member states and 1 UN General Assembly non-member observer state), states having disputed sovereignty (16 states, of which there are 6 UN member states, 1 UN General Assembly non-member observer state, and 9 de facto states), and states having a special political status (2 states, both in free association with New Zealand). Compiling a list such as this can be a complicated and controversial process, as there is no definition that is binding on all the members of the community of nations concerni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Hamdaniya District
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