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Encyclopedia > Dahuk, Iraq

Dohuk is a town in Iraq. It has 400,000 inhabitants. The name Dohuk comes from Kurmanji Kurdish meaning "small village". // Geographic distribution The Kurdish languages or Kurdish dialects are spoken in the region loosely called Kurdistan including Kurdish populations in parts of Iran (Persia), Iraq, Syria and Turkey. ...


The Assyrian name for the city is Nuhadra. The population of Dohuk is Kurdish and Assyrian. It's the heart of the Badinan population of the Kurds. Circled by mountains, along the Tigris river, Dahuk is very attractive to tourists. Dahuk population grew extremely since the 1990's as the rural population moved to the cities. This article concerns the Assyrian people. ... Dahuk is a town in Northern Iraq. ... Kurds are one of the Iranian peoples and speak Kurdish, a north-Western Iranian language related to Persian. ... Tigris River in Mosul, Iraq The Tigris (Old Persian: Tigr, Aramaic Assyrian: Deqlath, Arabic: دجلة, Dijla, Turkish: Dicle; Hebrew: חידקל; biblical Hiddekel) is the eastern member of the pair of great rivers that define Mesopotamia, along with the Euphrates, which flows from the mountains of Anatolia through Iraq. ...


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Dahuk (97 words)
City in northern Iraq with 47,000 inhabitants (2005 estimate), administrative centre for the Dahuk (or D'huk) governorate with about 450,000 inhabitants, which is the smallest of the 3 provinces of the autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq.
In economic terms is Dahuk a small regional centre for the region's fruit orchards and pasturage.
Dahuk was a popular summer destination for Iraqis from further south, with many hotels and camps.
[ The New Iraq ] (6185 words)
Led by Faris Kahrdi, the group supports the return of the monarchy to Iraq and "views the change that took place on 14 July 1958, which removed the monarchy, as the beginning of the deterioration of political life in Iraq," London's "Al-Hayat" reported in October 2003.
The party's statement further noted Iraq's "honorable national task" in serving Arab and Islamic causes, citing the "Palestinian cause and the Arab-Zionist conflict." The statement said Islam is the religion of Iraq and the basic source of the country's legislation.
He did not support the Transitional Administrative Law in Iraq, and told Al-Jazeera in June 2004 that UN Security Council Resolution 1546 was "shrouded in much vagueness." Al-Khalisi formerly led a group called the Islamic Movement in Iraq.
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