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Bakhdida
Sign in to saveQaraqosh (; (official name), or , also known as al-Ḥamdāniyya or Qara-Qūš; a Turkic placename meaning "Black Bird") is a city in the Nineveh Governorate, of Iraq located about southeast of the city of Mosul and west of Erbil amid agricultural lands, close to the ruins of the ancient Assyrian cities Kalhu and Nineveh. The city has an Assyrian Christian majority.
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Place details
- Locality
- الحمدانية
- Region
- محافظة نینوى
- Country
- العراق
- Population
- 50,000
- Timezone
- Asia/Baghdad
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Qaraqosh
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Iraqvillagebaghdeda.JPG
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
- Settlement.image_caption
- A view of Bakhdida
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Iraq
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Nineveh
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Al-Hamdaniya District
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Isam Behnam Da'aboul
- Settlement.population_total
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Iraq
- Located in
- Al-Hamdaniya District
- Population
- +18000
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Official website
- www.bakhdida.com
- Image
- Iraqvillagebaghdeda.JPG
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Article
18 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Security
- Education
- History
- Pre-Christian accounts
- Early Christian history
- Raids of Persians and Kurds
- Afshar–Ottoman wars
- After the 2003 US invasion
- Politics since 2005
- IS attacks and invasion
- Post–IS
- Geography
- Climate
- Archaeology
- See also
- References
- External links
Qaraqosh (; (official name), or , also known as al-Ḥamdāniyya or Qara-Qūš; a Turkic placename meaning "Black Bird") is a city in the Nineveh Governorate, of Iraq located about southeast of the city of Mosul and west of Erbil amid agricultural lands, close to the ruins of the ancient Assyrian cities Kalhu and Nineveh. The city has an Assyrian Christian majority.
Qaraqosh is connected to the main city of Mosul by two main roads. The first runs through the Assyrian towns of Bartella and Karamlesh, which connects to the city of Erbil as well. The second, which was gravel before being paved in the 1990s, is direct to Mosul. All of its Assyrian Christian citizens fled to the Kurdistan Region after the IS invasion on August 6, 2014. The town was under control of IS until October 19, 2016, when it was liberated as part of the Battle of Mosul after which residents have begun to return. According to archbishop Nizar Semaan, by July 2024 about half of the city's original 50,000 residents had returned to Qaraqosh.