Deraluk

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Deraluk
Town
Amadiya District
Sub-districtDeraluk
Population
 (2014)[1]
 • Urban
44,448
 • Rural
7,070

Deraluk (

Amadiya
.

In the town, there are churches of Mar Khnana and Mar Gewargis.[5][4]

Etymology

The name of the town is derived from "deira" ("monastery/church" in Syriac) and "Luqa" ("Luke" in Syriac), and thus Deraluk translates to "monastery or church of Saint Luke".[4]

History

In 1920, Deraluk was settled by Assyrians of the Baz clan after their expulsion from the region of Hakkari in Turkey.[4] It was named after a ruined monastery of Saint Luke in the vicinity.[4] Prior to the Simele massacre in 1933, Deraluk was inhabited by 130 Assyrians, many of whom were forced to flee the violence and settled along the River Khabur in Syria.[4]

Deraluk was made a mujamma (collective town) by the

Nerwa Rekan along the Iraq–Turkey border.[4] Fortry-five houses were constructed for the thirty households that came from Qārō, five households from Lower Nerwa, five households from Derigni, and five households from Wela.[4] In the following year, a church of Mar Khnana was constructed.[4]

It was used as a mujamma again in 1987–1988 during the

Iran-Iraq War in January 1988.[7]

On 5 December 2011, amidst the 2011 Duhok riots, alcohol shops were targeted by rioters and four were set alight and two others were ransacked.[8] In 2012, an estimated 525 Assyrians inhabited Deraluk.[9] Humanitarian aid was delivered to 72 displaced families from Mosul and the Nineveh Plains by the Assyrian Aid Society in January 2015.[10] As of 2021, 120 Assyrians with 45 families, all of whom are adherents of the Assyrian Church of the East, reside at Deraluk.[11]

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References

  1. ^ Ali Sindi; Ramanathan Balakrishnan; Gerard Waite (July 2018). "Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Demographic Survey" (PDF). ReliefWeb. International Organization for Migration. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  2. ^ "العراق.. محافظ دهوك يجدد مطالبته بإنهاء وجود إرهابيي "بي كا كا"". Anadolu Agency (in Arabic). 13 April 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  3. ^ "بەهۆی بۆردوومانەکەی تورکیا لە دێرەلووک چوار کەس گیانیان لەدەستداوە". Rudaw Media Network (in Kurdish). 24 January 2019. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i Donabed (2015), p. 318.
  5. ^ "Mar Gewargiz church – Deraluk". Ishtar TV. 7 October 2011. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  6. ^ Donabed (2015), pp. 204, 318.
  7. ^ Hiro (1991), p. 282.
  8. ^ Zewki, Hikmat (5 December 2011). "More liquor stores torched in Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan". Ekurd.net. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  9. ^ "Christian Communities in the Kurdistan Region". Iraqi Kurdistan Christianity Project. 2012. Archived from the original on 24 November 2020. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  10. ^ "AAS-Iraq Continues The Distribution Of Clothes To Displaced Families In Deraluk". Assyrian Aid Society. 3 January 2015. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  11. ^ "Population Project". Shlama Foundation. Retrieved 19 August 2021.

Bibliography

  • Donabed, Sargon George (2015). Reforging a Forgotten History: Iraq and the Assyrians in the Twentieth Century. Edinburgh University Press.
  • Hiro, Dilip (1991). The Longest War: The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict. Psychology Press.
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