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Nineveh Plains سهل نينوى ܦܩܥܬܐ ܕܢܝܢܘܐ Deşta Neynewa ,دهشتا نهینهوا
Map of the three districts which constitute Nineveh plains overlaid over the Nineveh Governorate map.
Largest city
Bakhdida
Government
• Governor of Hamdaniya
Nisan Karromi
• Governor of Tel Keppe
Basim Bello
• Governor of Al-Shikhan
Hasu Narmu
Area
• Total
4,197 km2 (1,620 sq mi)
Population
• 2012 estimate
500,000
• 1987 census
281,829
• Density
117/km2 (303.0/sq mi)
Nineveh Plains (Classical Syriac: ܦܩܥܬܐ ܕܢܝܢܘܐ, romanized: Pqaʿtā ḏ-Nīnwē, Modern Syriac: ܕܫܬܐ ܕܢܝܢܘܐ, romanized: Daštā d-Ninwe; Arabic: سهل نينوى, romanized: Sahl Naynawā; Kurdish: دهشتا نهینهوا, romanized: Deşta Neynewa) is a region in Nineveh Governorate in Iraq, to the north and east of the city Mosul. Control over the region is contested between Iraqi security forces, KRG security forces, Assyrian security forces, Babylon Brigade and the Shabak Militia.[1]
The plains have a heterogenous population of Assyrian Syriac-Aramaic speaking Christians belonging to different Syriac Churches (Chaldean Catholic, Syriac Orthodox and Syriac Catholic), Arabs, Kurds, Yazidis, Shabaks and Turkmens,[2] and includes ruins of ancient Assyrian cities and religious sites, such as Nimrud, Dur-Sharrukin, Mar Mattai Monastery, Rabban Hormizd Monastery and the Tomb of Nahum.[3]
^Hanna, Reine (June 1, 2020). "Contested Control: The Future of Security in Iraq's Nineveh Plain" (PDF). p. 31. Retrieved September 12, 2020.
^"Shabaks, Yezidis, Assyrians protest settlement of Arab families in Nineveh". Rûdaw. 8 February 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
^"Iraq Says It Intends to Make 3 New Provinces - ABC News". ABC News. Archived from the original on 2014-01-25.
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in cooperation with Peshmerga, to defend against Islamic State. The NinevehPlains is a region at the heart of the Assyrian homeland. The militia is affiliated...
Assyrian homeland within the Nineveh Province (mostly in the NinevehPlains region) for the Assyrian population. 2005 Nineveh governorate election Assyrian...
Assyrian communities, towns and villages in the Assyrian homeland and NinevehPlains. Some foreign Christian fighters from the Western world have also joined...
Nineveh. The context of Nineveh was as one of many centers within the regional development of Upper Mesopotamia. This area is defined as the plains which...
2017 relating to the future of the NinevehPlains. The position paper called for the creation of a NinevehPlains province that is self-governed by the...
of Ninawa Governorate Tuz Khurmatu, from part of Saladin Governorate NinevehPlains from the Ninawa Governorate. Halabja from Sulaymaniah Governorate In...
of Al-Hasakah in Syria by 2015, and from the NinevehPlains in Iraq by 2017. In 2014, the NinevehPlain Protection Units was formed and many Assyrians...
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declared that NinevehPlains would become a new province, which would serve as a safe haven for Assyrians. After the liberation of the NinevehPlain from ISIL...
The NinevehPlains offensive was a battle in which the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) mounted a multi-front attack against Peshmerga forces...
They speak Shabaki and live in a religious community (ta'ifa) in the NinevehPlains. The ancestors of Shabaks were followers of the Safaviyya order, which...
the Ninawa Governorate in northern Iraq. The town is located in the NinevehPlains. It belongs to the disputed territories of Northern Iraq. According...
ISIS takeover of the NinevehPlains in 2014 after KRG security forces forcibly disarmed local populations in the NinevehPlains, asserting a full monopoly...
Mosul and is widely spoken in the region. Together with the nearby NinevehPlains, Mosul is one of the historical centers of the Assyrian people. Mosul...
grip on the NinevehPlains area and to facilitate its incorporation into the Kurdistan Region, Kurdish authorities in the NinevehPlains have embarked...
live in Iraq and are particularly concentrated in the NinevehPlains and Sinjar areas in the Nineveh Governorate in northern Iraq. The following settlements...
founded in 2014, initially as a militia group in order to defend the NinevehPlains from the onset of ISIS. His movement had been the only Christian component...
never prohibited by Iraqi law. In 2014, the Peshmerga withdrew from the NinevehPlains which was said by the locals as being a contributing factor of the quick...
took over and expelled a massive portion of the population from the NinevehPlains in Northern Iraq. The Assyrian Aid Society of America has requested...
which is a large region stretching from the plain of Urmia in northwestern Iran through to the NinevehPlains, Erbil, Kirkuk and Duhok regions in northern...
Retrieved 6 March 2015. "Inside the Christian Militias Defending the NinevehPlains". Archived from the original on 15 September 2016. Retrieved 24 December...
(3 mi) south of the village of Selamiyah (Arabic: السلامية), in the NinevehPlains in Upper Mesopotamia. It was a major Assyrian city between approximately...
ألقوش, alternatively spelled Alkosh, Alqoš, or Alqush) is a town in the NinevehPlains of northern Iraq, a sub-district of the Tel Kaif District situated 45 km...
the University of AL-Hamdaniya, which is planned to serve the whole NinevehPlains region. The University of AL-Hamdaniya currently consists of two colleges:...
for Iraq are: "Establishment of a NinevehPlain Province for minoritized communities Restoration of the NinevehPlain after IS Development of Assyrian-led...
achieve administrative self-government or outright autonomy for the NinevehPlains, a northern Iraqi region with high concentration of Christian population...
million before 2003. In 2014, the Chaldean and Syriac population of the NinevehPlains in northern Iraq was scattered to Dohuk, Erbil and Jordan due to ISIS...
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