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Contents
1History
2Demographics
3Educational institutions
4Sport
5Climate
6Exhibition
7See also
8References
9External links
History[edit]
Throughout history to the present time, Duhok has acquired a strategic position
historically and geographically. Between the 25th and 22nd century BC, it changed hands
between
the Akkadians, Sumerians, Assyrians, Amorites, Gutians, Hurrians and Hattians, before
becoming an integral part of Assyria from the mid 21st century BC until the dissolution of
Assyria (then known as Athura/Assuristan) in the mid 7th century AD after
the Arab Islamic Conquest.[7]
During the Assyrian period the town was named Nohadra (and also Bit
Nuhadra or Naarda). During Parthian-Sassanid rule in Assyria (c. 160 BC to 250 AD)
Beth Nuhadra gained semi-independence as one of a patchwork of Neo-
Assyrian kingdoms in Assyria, which also included Adiabene, Osroene, Assur and Beth
Garmai. During the Christian era it became an eparchy within the Assyrian Church of the
East metropolitanate of Ḥadyab (Erbil).[8][9]
The city became prominent again in 1236, when Hasan Beg Saifadin joined the Kurdish
Badinan principality. In 1842, the principality was dissolved by the Ottomans and the
region administered from the city of Mosul.[10]
Duhok by night
In 1898 there were eleven small private schools in the city, including two Assyrian and
two Jewish schools. In 1920 there were, in all of Iraq, only five primary schools that were
accessible for girls, and one of them was in Duhok.
In September 2005, Duhok held a cultural festival for the first time to which Kurdish
writers from many countries were invited. Duhok has been a center for many refugees
since 2014 as the Kurdistan Regional Government was the only part of Iraq to take in
both Iraqi and Syrian refugees.
Demographics[edit]
Multiple travelers commented on its ethnic composition in the 19th and early 20th
century.
In 1820, Rich described it as a small town of 300 houses, which was the principal site of
the Doski tribe, together with eighty other villages. The missionary Henry Aaron Stern
(1851) commented on Duhok's mixed population and noted that it included Jewish
residents, adding that the kiahya, or mayor of the village, was a Chaldean Catholic. In
1859, Rabbi Yehiel found there two minyans of Jews. The Muslims and Christians
formed about a hundred households. In 1929, its settled population was about 3,500
inhabitants, with Kurds forming the majority. Out of the 550 households, 65 were
Christian and 30 were Jewish. A sizeable number of Nestorian refugees previously from
Tiyari and a lesser number of Chaldeans from the Turkish districts of Merga and Bothan
migrated into Duhok in the aftermath of World War I. In 1929, the qada of Duhok had a
mixed population of 29,858, composed mostly of Muslim Kurds (18,307), Christians
5,784 (19.3%), Muslim Arabs 2,068, Yezidis 2,870, and Jews 829 (2.7%). [11]
Educational institutions[edit]
Educational institutions in Duhok include:
University of Duhok
Duhok Polytechnic University
Nawroz University
Duhok Private Technical Institute
University of Cihan
Sardam International School
Da Vinci World School
Da Vinci institute
Sport[edit]
Duhok Stadium
The city is home to several sporting clubs including Duhok SC, a professional football
club that plays in the Iraqi Premier League. Another football team from the city
is Zeravani SC, which plays in the Kurdish Premier League. Duhok also has a range of
other sport clubs, including the Duhok Basketball Club. Duhok SC Basketball competes
in the Iraqi Division I Basketball League and came third in FIBA Asia Champions Cup in
2012.
Duhok SC won the Iraqi Premier League championship for the first time in the 2009/2010
season, beating Al-Talaba SC 1–0.
Climate[edit]
According to the Köppen-Geiger climate classification system, Duhok has a
borderline semi-arid (BSh) and Mediterranean climate (Csa) with extremely hot,
prolonged, dry summers and mild to cool, wet winters, similar to most of Upper
Mesopotamia. Precipitation falls in the cooler months, being heaviest in late winter and
early spring. The city can get around two or three snowy days per year, with heavier falls
in the uplands. Summers are virtually dry, with rain returning in late autumn.
Exhibition[edit]
Duhok dam
I LOVE DUHOK
See also[edit]
Nawroz University
Duhok International Airport
Assyrian homeland
References[edit]
1. ^ "Iraq: Governorates, Major Cities & Urban Centers - Population Statistics, Maps, Charts,
Weather and Web Information". www.citypopulation.de.
2. ^ "K24 rêjeya dengdanê li navçeyên cuda yên Herêma Kurdistan belav
kir". Kurdistan24 (in Kurdish). Retrieved 18 December 2019.
3. ^ " وێبسایتی فەرمی دەستەی گشتی گەشت و گوزار- سەرسوڕهێنەرe"كوردستانی. bot.gov.krd. Retrieved 18
December 2019.
4. ^ Kadr, Salahden Ghareb (2010). Klimatische Optimierung von verdichteten
Wohnhäusern in Irakisch-Kurdistan (in German). Univerlagtuberlin. ISBN 978-3-7983-
2238-7.
5. ^ Scheler, Claudia Rammelt (Hg ) in Verbindung mit Jan Gehm und Rebekka (2019-04-
26). Pluralität und Koexistenz, Gewalt, Flucht und Vertreibung: Christliche, jesidische und
muslimische Lebenswelten in den gegenwärtigen Umbrüchen im Nahen Osten (in
German). LIT Verlag Münster. ISBN 978-3-643-14293-1.
6. ^ Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Duhok — ” ܒܝܬ ܢܘܗܕܪܐin The Syriac Gazetteer last modified
February 6, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/76.
7. ^ http://www.uod.ac/site/en/duhokcity#sthash.m1dKO7nV.dpuf Archived 2014-12-18 at
the Wayback Machine
8. ^ Société des études arméniennes, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Association de la
revue des études arméniennes (1989). Revue des études arméniennes, Volume 21.
pp. 303, 309.
9. ^ NAARDA, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854)
10. ^ BAHDĪNĀN. "Encyclopaedia Iranica". www.iranicaonline.org.
11. ^ M. Zaken, Jewish Subjects and Their Tribal Chieftains in Kurdistan, 376 pp., Brill, 2007.
12. ^ Mar Narsi church. "Dhouk". www.ishtartv.com.
13. ^ Khalel, Sheren; Vickery, Matthew (27 October 2014). "The Forgotten Yazidis". Foreign
Policy Magazine.
14. ^ Interactive. "Iraq's exodus". www.aljazeera.com.
15. ^ "DTM-IOM-Iraq Mission". iraqdtm.iom.int. Retrieved 2019-08-08.
16. ^ "Dahuk, Iraq Climate". My Forecast. Retrieved 2014-01-04.
17. ^ "Climate, weather, temperatures - City : DUHOK". Levoyageur. Retrieved 2014-01-04.
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