Dohuk Governorate

Dahuk (Arabic دهوك, Dahuk DMG ) is a province in the north of Iraq; It borders Turkey and belongs to the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan. The capital is Dohuk. The government had since the founding of Iraq until the early 1990s, part of the province of Mosul ( Ninawa ).

During the second Gulf War in 1991, the city was occupied by the Iraqi army, which compelled the most Kurds to temporarily flee to the Turkish border. Today, the province is almost completely built up again. The currently only open border crossing with Turkey is also located in this province, so that here there is brisk cross-border traffic. Dahuk was formerly part of about 1236 to 1842 of the Kurdish principality Badinan. The Kurds speak Kurmanji dialect of the.

The government consists of the districts of:

  • Amediye
  • Dohuk
  • Semile
  • Zaxo

On 15 October 2005 of 389 198 voters voted in 99.13 % of the new Constitution.

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