Mandali ( ar, مندلي, ku, Mendelî ,مەندەلی) is a town in
Balad Ruz District
Balad Ruz District ( ar, قضاء بلدروز) is a district of Diyala Governorate, Iraq. Cities and villages include Balad Ruz
Balad Ruz () is a city located some 120 km (75 mi) northeast of Baghdad in the Diyala Governorate of ...
,
Diyala Governorate in Iraq, near the
Iranian border. The town experienced
Arabization during the
Saddam
Saddam Hussein ( ; ar, صدام حسين, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolution ...
era and has a mixed
Kurdish
Kurdish may refer to:
*Kurds or Kurdish people
*Kurdish languages
*Kurdish alphabets
*Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes:
**Southern Kurdistan
**Eastern Kurdistan
**Northern Kurdistan
**Western Kurdistan
See also
* Kurd (dis ...
and
Arab
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population. The town is
disputed between the federal government of Iraq and the autonomous
Kurdistan Region
Kurdistan Region ( ku, هەرێمی کوردستان, translit=Herêmî Kurdistan; ar, إقليم كردستان), abbr. KRI, is an autonomous region in Iraq comprising the four Kurdish-majority governorates of Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, Duhok ...
.
Mandali is known for its
palm tree
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orchards
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and
dates
Date or dates may refer to:
*Date (fruit), the fruit of the date palm (''Phoenix dactylifera'')
Social activity
*Dating, a form of courtship involving social activity, with the aim of assessing a potential partner
**Group dating
* Play date, a ...
.
History
The former name of Mandali was Bendink
which was the capital of the
Kurdish principality
The Kurdish chiefdoms or principalities were several semi-independent entities which existed during the 16th to 19th centuries during the state of continuous warfare between the Ottoman Empire and Safavid Iran. Bani Ammz.
Kurds constituted 50% of the population in 1947 and the majority continued throughout the 1950s. About 4,000 Kurdish families were deported or fled the town after the collapse of the
Kurdish movement in 1975.
During September 1980 of the
Iran–Iraq War
The Iran–Iraq War was an armed conflict between Iran and Ba'athist Iraq, Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. It began with the Iraqi invasion of Iran and lasted for almost eight years, until the acceptance of United Nations S ...
, the town and other nearby villages were attacked by Iranian forces. The population of the town was 25,656 in 1977 but decreased to 8,092 in 1987. A republican
decree
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established Baladruz District in 1987 which Mandali was attached to.
Border trade
Being located in the vicinity of the Soumar border marketplace, in the Iranian
Kermanshah province, there are commercial exchanges with Iran.
See also
*
Sumar
References
Populated places in Diyala Province
Iran–Iraq border crossings
Kurdish settlements in Iraq
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