Nineveh Province

Ninawa or Nineveh (Arabic نينوى, DMG Ninawa ), ( Aramaic ܢ ܝ ܢ ܘ ܐ Nīnwē ) is a province in northwestern Iraq and has about 3.2 million inhabitants (calculated 2010). Those living on an area of ​​32 308 square kilometers. The province is named after Nineveh, an ancient capital of the Assyrians.

The population consists mainly of Kurds (also called Arameans, Chaldeans ) Assyrian Christians and Sunni Arabs together. Especially the north and the east of the province are strongly Kurdish. The Kurds speak as in Dahuk the Kurmanji dialect. There are also larger communities of Yazidis, whose shrine is located in Lalesch in Mosul. Furthermore, living in the south of the province of individual Bedouin tribes. Reliable current statistics on the ethnic and religious distribution in Ninawa are not available.

The Assyrian Christians in Ninawa include the following churches:

  • Chaldean Catholic Church - about 50 %
  • Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch - about 25 %
  • Assyrian Apostolic Church - about 19%
  • Other - 6%

The districts of Akre and ski Khan are under the administration of the Kurdistan Autonomous Region. The province consists of the districts of:

  • Akre
  • Al- Ba'adsch
  • Al- Hamdaniya
  • Hatra
  • Mosul
  • Karachi Khan
  • Sindschar
  • Tal Afar
  • Tilkaif

On 15 October 2005 of 718 758 voters voted in 55.08 % against the new constitution.

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