Altunkupri

Altin Köprü ( التون كوپرو Altun Kūprū, Arabic: Al- Qantara; Kurdish: Pirde ) is an Iraqi city in the province of Kirkuk. Altin Köprü is located on the Little Zab at an altitude of 250 m on the border province of Arbil. North of the city leads the railway line Arbil Kirkuk. The city has calculated to 9110 inhabitants, who are mainly Turkmen. In addition, even Kurds and Arabs live in the city. Most of the inhabitants of the city are employed in agriculture or in the oil fields of Kirkuk.

The city's name comes from the Turkish ( Südaserbaidschanicher dialect ), meaning Golden Bridge (Turkey - Turkish: Altınköprü ). The Kurdish and Arabic name of the city means both bridge.

Altin Köprü was founded on a rock in Zab and now extends far beyond the island. In the Middle Ages the town was an insignificant village and, after the construction of two bridges in the 16th century by the Ottomans an important trading point. 1918 of the bridges was destroyed and replaced by a steel bridge. After the end of the First World War, the area around Altin Köprü part of the British Mandate of Mesopotamia and then part of the new state was Iraq. On March 28, 1991, a massacre of some 100 Turkmen population occurred shortly after the end of the Second Gulf War by the Iraqi army.