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Harir
The town of HarirThe 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
ProvinceErbil 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. The town was destroyed during the World War I and rebuilt by Assyrian Nestorian refugees from Hakkâri. A church was built during the reconscruction. In 1938, Harir had seventy-eight families (485 people). Prior to its destruction, the total number of Assyrian households numbered over ninety.

In the 1947 census, the town had a population of 8,930 of which 95% of was Kurdish.

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

  1. "ھاتوچۆی بارھەڵگر لە ڕێگەی دووسایدی شەقڵاوە –ھەریر قەدەغە دەکرێت" (in Kurdish). Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  2. "Xîyaneta 'ohetê sînorî'". Yeni Özgür Politika (in Kurdish). 9 June 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  3. Bengio, Ofra (2014). "Game Changers: Kurdish Women in Peace and War". Middle East Institute. 70: 30–4.
  4. Gurses, Mehmet (2020). The Kurds in the Middle East: Enduring Problems and New Dynamics. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 208. ISBN 9781793613592.
  5. Donabed, Sargon (2015). Reforging a Forgotten History. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 276–277.
  6. 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.
  7. Donabed, Sargon. Reforging a Forgotten History. Edinburgh University Press. p. 277.
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