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 The town of Harir | |
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| Coordinates: 36°33′06″N 44°21′06″E / 36.5517°N 44.3516°E / 36.5517; 44.3516 | |
| Country |  Iraq |
| Autonomous region |  Kurdistan Region |
| Province | Erbil Governorate |
Harir (Template:Lang-ku) is a town and sub-district located in the district of Shaqlawa, Erbil, Kurdistan Region in Iraq.
History
Evliya Çelebi included the town as part of Kurdistan in his demarcation and mentioned that the town was ruled by Mir Xanzad.
Harir was rebuilt by Assyrians from Hakkari following the Assyrian genocide. In 1938, Harir had seventy-eight families (485 persons).
In the 1947 census, the town had a population of 8,930 of which 95% of was Kurdish.
Prior to its destruction in 1963, the total number of Assyrian households numbered over ninety. According to the Kurdish Center for Human Rights, on 18 February 2006 the Kurdish Minister of Human Rights discussed the uncovering of a mass grave in which some thirty-seven bodies were identified as Assyrians originally from Harir.
See also
References
- "ھاتوچۆی بارھەڵگر لە ڕێگەی دووسایدی شەقڵاوە –ھەریر قەدەغە دەکرێت" (in Kurdish). Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- "Xîyaneta 'ohetê sînorî'". Yeni Özgür Politika (in Kurdish). 9 June 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- Bengio, Ofra (2014). "Game Changers: Kurdish Women in Peace and War". Middle East Institute. 70: 30–4.
- Gurses, Mehmet (2020). The Kurds in the Middle East: Enduring Problems and New Dynamics. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 208. ISBN 9781793613592.
- Donabed, Sargon. Reforging a Forgotten History. Edinburgh University Press. p. 276.
- C. J. Edmonds (1957). Kurds, Turks and Arabs, Politics, Travel and Research in North-Eastern Iraq, 1919-1925. Oxford University Press. p. 439. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
- Donabed, Sargon. Reforging a Forgotten History. Edinburgh University Press. p. 277.
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