The Kirkuk Citadel (Arabic: قلعة كركوك,[1] Kurdish: قەڵای کەرکووک,[2] Turkish: Kerkük Kalesi[3]) is in the centre of Kirkuk, Iraq, and is considered to be the oldest part of the city. The citadel stands on an tell 40 meters high located on a plateau across the Khasa River.
^Mahmoud. "قلعة كركوك" (PDF). CGUAA (in Arabic).
^"قەڵای کەرکووک" (in Kurdish). Archived from the original on 28 September 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
^"Kerkük". TDV Islâm Ansiklopedia (in Turkish). Retrieved 1 December 2020.
The KirkukCitadel (Arabic: قلعة كركوك, Kurdish: قەڵای کەرکووک, Turkish: Kerkük Kalesi) is in the centre of Kirkuk, Iraq, and is considered to be the oldest...
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to Kirkuk and have traditionally been the caretakers of the KirkukCitadel. They are ethnic Assyrians from Kirkuk who lived in or near the citadel, where...
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tribe of Sagartians in the Assyrian cities of Arbela and Arrapha (modern Kirkuk), probably as a reward for their help in the capture of Nineveh. According...
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Gorani-speaking Hamawand tribe. The city is a 30 minutes drive east from Kirkuk and an hour west of Sulaymaniyah. The population was 58,000 in 2003. The...
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Students Group in Kirkuk with a number of his colleagues in 1976. Kosrat was arrested in 1977 by Baath Party security services in Kirkuk for organizing political...
territorial self-rule within Iraq, demanding larger areas, including the oil-rich Kirkuk region. During the 1920s and 1930s, several large-scale Kurdish revolts...
regions around Mosul and Kirkuk, were deported and resettled in Urfa to help repopulate the city.: 22 The connection with Kirkuk in particular left cultural...
neighbouring cities, alongside other regional leagues including the Basra, Kirkuk and Mosul leagues. These regional league championships lasted until 1973...
Iranian army that had left Hamadan and was heading to Baghdad. Besieging Kirkuk with a residue force of 7,000 the main Iranian army marched on until they...
played at a regional level. The Central FA League, the Basra League and the Kirkuk League were all founded in 1948, while the Mosul League was founded in 1950...
of Mosul, 52 km (32 mi) east of Sinjar and 200 km (120 mi) northwest of Kirkuk. Its local inhabitants are exclusively Turkmen. While no official census...
of Ardalan controlled the territories of Zardiawa (Karadagh), Khanaqin, Kirkuk, Kifri, and Hawraman, despite being vassals themselves of the various in...
regions around Mosul and Kirkuk, were deported and resettled in Urfa to help repopulate the city.: 22 The connection with Kirkuk in particular left cultural...
bombard the citadel. Finally, the next day, on March 25, 1738, Hussain Hotaki and the rest of his retinue which had taken shelter in the citadel, surrendered...
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