Dahuk, Duhok Governorate, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Name | History | Ottoman period | Modern times | Archaeology | Subdistricts | Villages and towns

🇮🇶 Duhok, (دهۆک,  Dihok; دهوك,  Dahūk; ܒܝܬ ܢܘܗܕܪܐ,  Beth Nohadra) is a city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. It is the capital city of Duhok Governorate.

Name The city of Duhok received its name from the Kurdish word ’du’ (two) and ’hok’ (lump) as a tax payment of two lumps from the basket of each passing caravan that often carry wheat and barley. According to a tradition presented by Sasson Nahum, Dohuk was initially named Dohuk-e Dasinya, signifying "Dohuk of the Yezidis". However, after a massacre of the Yezidis, the town was abandoned, leading to the settlement of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the area.

History The city of Duhok has an ancient Assyrian and Mittani history attached to it from the time of the kingdoms of Nineveh and Urartu.

The city joined the Kurdish principality of Badinan sometime in the 13th or 14th centuries under the foundation of the Kurdish Hakkari tribe. As observed by Evliya Celebi in Seyahatnâme (Book of Travels), the principality was divided into: Akre, Zaxo, Shixoyi, Duhok, Zibari, and Muzuri.

Ottoman period In 1820, Rich described Duhok as a small town comprising 300 houses, serving as the principal site for the Doski tribe, accompanied by eighty additional villages. The missionary Henry Aaron Stern (1851) observed Dohuk's diverse population, which included Jewish residents. Stern further noted that the kiahya, or village mayor, was of Chaldean Catholic affiliation. By 1859, Rabbi Yehiel found two minyans of Jews in the area. The Muslim and Christian communities comprised around a hundred households.

In 1929, the settled population reached approximately 3,500 inhabitants, with Kurds forming the majority. Among the 550 households, 65 were Christian, and 30 were Jewish.

Modern times The University of Duhok was founded on 31 October 1992.

The city is home to diverse ethnic groups, including Iraqi Kurds who are the majority, while other minorities include Assyrians, Yazidis and Arabs. The city also hosts tens of thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs), most of whom are Yazidis and Assyrians after the Islamic State expansion in Iraq in 2014 and the subsequent Fall of Mosul and the Nineveh Plains region after two more months of fighting, in addition to the Sinjar massacre in which 5,000 Yezidis were massacred during the genocide of Yazidis by ISIL. According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM-Iraq), as of June 2019, Duhok Governorate hosted 326,106 IDPs across 169 different locations.

Archaeology In 2020, researchers discovered in the Balyuz hills, ten km west of Duhok City, an ancient tablet with Greek inscription which dates back to 165 B.C. The inscriptions refer to Demetrius, the region's ruler during that time.

Seven km south-west of Duhok, Halamata Cave is an archaeological site containing the Assyrian relief carvings known as the Maltai Reliefs, associated with the northern canal system built by the Assyrian king Sennacherib (r. 704–681 BCE) to carry water to his capital city of Nineveh".

Subdistricts The district has the following sub-districts: • Duhok • Mangesh • Zawita.

Duhok Governorate is divided into seven districts, four of which are officially part of Kurdistan Region, while three others are under de facto control of the Kurdistan Regional Government: • Amedi District • Duhok District • Semel District • Zakho District • Akre District (Disputed) • Bardarash District (Disputed) • Shekhan District (Disputed).

Villages and towns • Araden • Avzrog • Badarash • Bakhetme • Bamarni • Bebadeyy • Dehi • Dawodiya • Duhok • Harmash • Hezany • Khanke • Sarsink • Sharmin • Sharya • Surya • Zawita.

Dahuk, Duhok Governorate, Kurdistan Region, Iraq 
<b>Dahuk, Duhok Governorate, Kurdistan Region, Iraq</b>
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Dahuk has a population of over 340,900 people. Dahuk also forms part of the wider Duhok Governorate which has a population of over 1,128,700 people. For the location of Dahuk see: Duhok.

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Antipodal to Dahuk is: -137,-36.867

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🇮🇶 Duhok 43,36.867 d: 0  

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