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Khanaqin (Arabic خانقين, Kurdish خانه قين Xaneqîn, also transliterated as Khanakin, Xanaqin) is a city in eastern Iraq, south of Kurdish regions. It is located at 34.3°N, 45.4°E in the Diyala Governorate, near the Iranian border on a tributary of the Diyala River. Image File history File links Iraq_map_khanaqin. ...
Image File history File links Iraq_map_khanaqin. ...
Arabic ( or just ) is the largest living member of the Semitic language family in terms of speakers. ...
The Kurdish language is a language spoken in the region called Kurdistan, including Kurdish populations in parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. ...
Diyala (Arabic: ديالى) is one of the constituent governorates of the nation of Iraq. ...
Map of Mesopotamia showing the Diyala River The Diyala River is a river and tributary of the Tigris that runs through Iran and Iraq. ...
Khanaqin is the seat of the Khanaqin Municipality. This Municipality contains several cities such as As-Sadiyah and Jalula and hundreds of villages. Its population has been estimated to 175,000 inhabitants, however, the real figure is never known due to the policy of the Iraqi regime.
Khanaqin is divided into two parts by the Alwand River, this river has played a significant role in land cultivation and in establishment of a strong rural society in the area. The river is considered by the people of Khanaqin as a symbol for their unity and Kurdish identity. Alwand is a river in east Iraq. ...
People The majority People of Khanaqin are Kurds[1]. They speak the Kalhuri and Gurani dialects of the Kurdish language, which is an Indo-European language. These dialects are wrongly groupped together and called Feyli by many Kurds. Gurani and Feyli/Fayli are in fact both dialects of Pahlawani branch of Kurdish vernaculars ("Feyli" is but an arabicized version of the name Pahli/Pahlawani). On the other hand, Kalhuri is the southernmost dialect of Southern Kurdish. The Kurdish language is a language spoken in the region called Kurdistan, including Kurdish populations in parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. ...
Feyli (aslo Fayli or Faili) is one of the Persid languages, very close to Persian and Luri. ...
Kurds are one of the Iranian peoples and speak Kurdish, a north-Western Iranian language related to Persian. ...
Southern Kurdish is one of three major Kurdish dialects which predominates in far southern Kurdistan, in western Iran and eastern Iraq. ...
Central Kurdish dialects group, also called Soraní, is the language of a plurality of Kurds in Eastern Kurdistan (Kurdistan in Iran) and Southern Kurdistan (Kurdistan in Iraq), with about 8 million speakers. ...
History During the Arabization policy of the Iraqi regime Sunni Arabs were settled in the city[2] and tt least 9,000 Kurds were killed and a larger number were forcibly removed and sent to southern Iraq or the Kurdish controlled north. The Iraqi Property Claims Commission has an office in Khanaqin to deal with the land disputes this policy generated now that Kurds have been allowed to return to their homes. Arabization is the gradual transformation of an area into one that speaks Arabic and is part of the Arab culture. ...
Sunni Islam (Arabic سنّة) is the largest denomination of Islam. ...
Languages Arabic and other minority languages Religions Islam, Christianity, Druzism and Judaism An Arab (Arabic: , arabi) is a member of a complexly defined ethnic group who identifies as such on the basis of one or more of either genealogical, political, or linguistic grounds. ...
In 9/6/2006 all the members of the city council of Khanaqin demanded that the city be separated from control of the Diyala governorate and be allowed to join the Autonomous Kurdistan region. In December 2007 there will be a referendum including the city to the Kurdish controlled north.
Oil fields The Naft Khana oil field is capable of producing up to 16,000 barrels per day of sweet light crude from an oil reserve that is also being tapped by Iran. Repairs to the oil plant were completed in March 2006 which restored it to its pre-war condition. The main elements affected were the gas-oil separation facility and the wet crude facility (which separates oil from water). Trucks currently transport oil to the Al Daura refinery in Baghdad. A 20,000 barrel per day oil refinery has been approved for construction in Khanaqin and oil from Naft Khana will be sent there when it is complete. Baghdad (Arabic: ) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate. ...
Famous people from Xaneqin - Leyla Qasim
- Azad Xaneqini
- Muhammad Ahmed Tahmas
- Jabar Farman
- Mla Baxtiar
- Emad Ahmed Saifoor
External links and references - Khanaqin HomePage
- Khanaqin HomePage Deutschland
- Khanaqin from globalsecurity.org
Coordinates: 34°21′N, 45°23′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
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