Merki, Iraq

Coordinates: 36°49′N 43°44′E / 36.817°N 43.733°E / 36.817; 43.733
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Merki
Town
Ninawa

Merki is an

Mar Mattai Monastery, establishing this village in the valley below the monastery.[1] The village and Nineveh Plains region were later bolstered by other Syriac refugees from Tikrit due to Mongol raids in 1295 and Timurs genocide of Christians in the early 1400s.[2]

Merki is a prosperous agricultural village, with the cultivation of olives being their specialty. The village has several hundred houses, and a large historic church which was recently restored.[3] In 2015, Christian monks remained at the monastery despite a surge in ISIL activity in the area surrounding the Nineveh Plains.[4]

See also

Sources

  1. ISBN 9789004112117
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  2. ISBN 978-0-85244-633-1
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  3. ^ "Merki".
  4. ^ "Assyrian Monks Won't Leave Ancient Monastery Amid ISIL Threat". www.aina.org. Retrieved 2017-02-05.
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