Bashiqa
Sign in to saveBashiqa (; ; ) is a town situated at the heart of the Nineveh plain, between Mosul and Sheikhan, on the edges of Mount Maqlub. The inhabitants of the town are predominantly Yazidis.
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Bashiqa
- Settlement.native_name
- بعشيقة
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ar
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- احدى مزارات الديانة الايزيدية في ناحية بعشيقة.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Yazidi shrine in Bashiqa
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Iraq
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Iraq
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Iraq
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Nineveh
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Iraq
- Located in
- Mosul District
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
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- P706
- Nineveh plains
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Article
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- Population
- History
- Yazidi holy sites
- See also
- References
Bashiqa (; ; ) is a town situated at the heart of the Nineveh plain, between Mosul and Sheikhan, on the edges of Mount Maqlub. The inhabitants of the town are predominantly Yazidis.
The urban area of Bashiqa and Bahzani had the third largest Yazidi population in Iraq prior to the Yazidi genocide. Whilst Bahzani contains older buildings with numerous ancient sites, Bashiqa is more modern and consists mainly of newer infrastructure and architecture. Between 2014 and 2016, ISIS destroyed 22 Yazidi mausoleums that were located in Bashiqa and Bahzani, the Yazidi libraries were demolished and the famous sacred olive grove in Bahzani was burnt.