Amadiya

Amediye (Kurdish: Amedi; Arab العمادية, DMG al - ʿ Amādiyya ) is a small town in the province of Dahuk of the Kurdistan Autonomous Region in Iraq. The city is located 10 km from the Turkish border at an altitude of 1190 meters.

Amediyes history dates back to 3000 BC. The core of the town is an old fortress, which was also the name of the city. According to Ibn al - Athir was the name of the fortress Aschib. After the conquest of the area in 1142 by Imad al -Din Zangi, she received the name Imadiye or Amediye. From the 13th to the 19th century was Amediye seat of the Kurdish principality Badinan.

Amediye has 6000 citizens in nearly 1200 homes. In the city, one of the oldest mosques is a 30 -meter high minaret. Previously, the city had two synagogues, but that have been destroyed by war. Three churches are to be found in the neighboring villages and among the significant churches in northern Iraq.

Trivia

The main part of Karl May's novel Through the wild Kurdistan plays in Amediye the time of the formal Ottoman suzerainty around 1870.