Daquq

Daquq (, alternatively Ṭawūq or Ṭa’ūq, , ), also known as Tavuk Kasabasi, is a city and the urban center of Daquq District in Kirkuk Governorate, Iraq. The city is ethnically diverse, with a Kurdish majority and Arab and Turkmen minority. It is part of the disputed territories of Northern Iraq. The town is a major agricultural area.

== Early history == Daquq was first mentioned under the name Diquqina in Aramaic texts of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in the 7th century BCE. The Assyriologist Ariel M. Bagg mentions that Ṭāwūq (another name of Daquq) is the location of either Diquqina or another town called Lubdu, the latter of which could also be at the site of Tall Buldağ. The historian Michael Astour also identified Diquqina with modern Daquq in 1987, calling it an attested provincial center in the Neo-Assyrian period. He also argued that Lubdu, in his text written as Lubda, was another provincial center south of Arrapḫa in a certain distance to Diquqina, but with the exact location unknown.