Duhok
Duhok
Dihok | |
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City | |
Top-bottom, R-L: View over Dohuk American University of Dohuk • Sharansh Waterfall Dohuk at night • Assyrian Mar Narsai Church | |
UTC+3 (Arabian Standard Time) | |
Postcode | 42001 |
Area code | 062 |
Website | duhok |
Duhok (
Name
The original name of the city was
History
The city of Duhok has an ancient
The city joined the
Ottoman period
In 1820, Rich described Duhok as a small town comprising 300 houses, serving as the principal site for the Doski tribe, accompanied by eighty additional villages. The missionary Henry Aaron Stern (1851) observed Dohuk's diverse population, which included Jewish residents. Stern further noted that the kiahya, or village mayor, was an Assyrian of Chaldean Catholic affiliation. By 1859, Rabbi Yehiel found two minyans of Jews in the area. The Muslim and Assyrian Christian communities comprised around a hundred households.[9]
In 1929, the settled population reached approximately 3,500 inhabitants, with Kurds forming the majority. Among the 550 households, 65 were Assyrian Christian, and 30 were Jewish.[9]
Modern times
The University of Duhok was founded on 31 October 1992.[11]
The city is home to diverse ethnic groups, including
Archaeology
In 2020, researchers discovered in the Balyuz hills, ten kilometers west of Duhok City, an ancient tablet with Greek inscription which dates back to 165 B.C. The inscriptions refer to Demetrius, the region's ruler during that time.[15]
Seven kilometers southwest of Duhok, Halamata Cave is an archaeological site containing the Assyrian relief carvings known as the Maltai Reliefs, associated with the northern canal system built by the Assyrian king Sennacherib (r. 704–681 BCE) to carry water to his capital city of Nineveh".[16]
Climate
According to the
Climate data for Duhok, Iraq | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 20 (68) |
27 (81) |
30 (86) |
34 (93) |
38 (100) |
41 (106) |
45 (113) |
46 (115) |
44 (111) |
39 (102) |
31 (88) |
24 (75) |
46 (115) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 11 (52) |
14 (57) |
19 (66) |
24 (75) |
32 (90) |
38 (100) |
42 (108) |
41 (106) |
37 (99) |
29 (84) |
20 (68) |
13 (55) |
27 (80) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 7 (45) |
10 (50) |
14 (57) |
18 (64) |
25 (77) |
31 (88) |
34 (93) |
34 (93) |
29 (84) |
22 (72) |
14 (57) |
9 (48) |
21 (69) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 3 (37) |
5 (41) |
9 (48) |
13 (55) |
18 (64) |
23 (73) |
27 (81) |
26 (79) |
21 (70) |
15 (59) |
8 (46) |
6 (43) |
15 (58) |
Record low °C (°F) | −4 (25) |
−6 (21) |
−1 (30) |
3 (37) |
6 (43) |
10 (50) |
13 (55) |
17 (63) |
11 (52) |
4 (39) |
−2 (28) |
−2 (28) |
−6 (21) |
Average rainfall mm (inches) | 101 (4.0) |
120 (4.7) |
111 (4.4) |
70 (2.8) |
38 (1.5) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
1 (0.0) |
10 (0.4) |
57 (2.2) |
108 (4.3) |
616 (24.3) |
Average rainy days | 9 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 62 |
Average snowy days | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Average relative humidity (%)
|
60 | 53 | 46 | 39 | 23 | 15 | 13 | 15 | 17 | 28 | 42 | 62 | 34 |
Source 1: My Forecast[17] | |||||||||||||
Source 2: Levoyageur for rainfall[18] |
See also
- List of largest cities in Iraq
- Duhok International Airport
- Assyrians in Iraq
- Kurds in Iraq
- Yazidis in Iraq
- Sami Khoshaba Latchin
References
- ^ "Iraq: Governorates & Cities".
- ^ "K24 rêjeya dengdanê li navçeyên cuda yên Herêma Kurdistan belav kir". Kurdistan24 (in Kurdish). Retrieved 18 December 2019.
- ^ "كوردستانی سەرسوڕهێنەر- وێبسایتی فەرمی دەستەی گشتی گەشت و گوزار". bot.gov.krd. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
- ^ قناة التغيير. "دهوك تغرق بالفيضانات والدفاع المدني يحذر المواطنين الخروج من منازلهم - نشرة أخبار الثالثة" (in Arabic). Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ISBN 978-3-7983-2238-7.
- ^ "Duhok". Retrieved Oct 6, 2020.
- ISBN 978-90-04-18257-8.
- ^ a b "Duhok City". dhk-pti.com. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
- ^ ISBN 978-90-474-2212-9, retrieved 2023-10-10
- ^ [1]
- ^ "University of Duhok (UoD)". Retrieved 19 October 2022.
- Foreign Policy Magazine.
- ^ Interactive. "Iraq's exodus". www.aljazeera.com.
- ^ "DTM-IOM-Iraq Mission". iraqdtm.iom.int. Retrieved 2019-08-08.
- ^ Researchers in Kurdistan's Duhok find artifact over 2,000 years old
- ^ "Maltai Rock Reliefs | Mapping Mesopotamian Monuments". mcid.mcah.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
- ^ "Dahuk, Iraq Climate". My Forecast. Retrieved 2014-01-04.
- ^ "Climate, weather, temperatures – City : DUHOK". Levoyageur. Retrieved 2014-01-04.
External links
- Media related to Dohuk at Wikimedia Commons
- Iraq Image – Dahuk Satellite Observation Archived 2012-06-23 at the Wayback Machine