Khatarah

Khatarah

Khatarah

Town in Iraq


Khatarah (Arabic: ختاره, Kurdish: خه‌تارێ, romanized: Xetarê,[2][3] alternatively spelled Khatare or Hatarah) is a town located in the Tel Kaif District of the Ninawa Governorate in northern Iraq. It is located 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of Mosul in the Nineveh Plains. It belongs to the disputed territories of Northern Iraq.[4][5]

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Khatarah has a mainly Yazidi population.[6][5]

Yazidi temple in Khatarah

References

  1. "Yezidin berichtet über verzweifelte Lage der Zivilisten in umkämpften Gebieten des Irak". Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker e.V. (GfbV). Retrieved 2 December 2018.
  2. "Ciwanekî Êzdî ji gundê Xetarê jiyana xwe bi dawî kir" (in Kurdish). Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  3. "The Struggle to Exist – Part I: An Introduction to the Assyrians and their Human Rights Situation in the New Iraq" (PDF). Assyria Council of Europe, Hammurabi Human Rights Organization. February 2010. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  4. Università di Torino. Facoltà di lettere e filosofia; Centro ricerche archeologiche e scavi di Torino per il Medio Oriente e l'Asia (Italy); Centro scavi di Torino per il medio oriente e l'Asia (1997). Mesopotamia, Volume 32. Giappichelli.

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