Al-Hamdaniya District

District in Iraq

Al-Hamdaniya District (also known as Bakhdida District; Arabic: قضاء الحمدانية; Syriac: ܪܘܼܣܬܩܐ ܕ ܒܓ݂ܕܝܕܐ) is a district in the north-east of the Nineveh Governorate (Ninawa) of Iraq.

Al-Hamdaniya District is divided between four sub-districts:^[1]

• Aski Kalak (Khabat) Sub-District, mostly Kurdish, some Assyrians and Yazidis, (de facto or even unofficial part of Aqrah district).
• al-Namrud (al-Khidhr) Sub-District, mostly Arab and Turkmen, some Kaka'is, Shabak and Assyrian,
• Bartillah (Baritleh) Sub-District, mostly Assyrian, some Shabak, Arab and Turkmen,
• Qaraqosh (Bakhdida) Sub-District, mostly Assyrians, some Arabs, Shabak, Turkmen and Kaka'is.

Towns and villages include:

• Bashiqa
• Bahzani
• Bakhdida
• Bartella
• Karemlash
• Balawat

See also

• Assyrian homeland
• Proposals for Assyrian autonomy in Iraq
• Assyrian settlements

References

1. "The Struggle to Exist, Part II: Violence against Assyrian Communities in Nineveh Province's Disputed Territories" (PDF). Assyria Council of Europe, Hammurabi Human Rights Organization. February 2010. Retrieved 15 December 2016.