Nineveh Governorate
Nineveh Governorate
محافظة نينوى ( Arabic) | |
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Top-bottom, R–L: View over Tigris river Church of Saint Thomas • Hatra Mosul Rural area • The river's gate Mosul Museum • Heritage house | |
Coordinates: 36°0′N 42°28′E / 36.000°N 42.467°E | |
Country | Iraq |
Capital | Mosul |
Government | |
• Governor | Najim Al-Juburee |
Area | |
• Total | 37,323 km2 (14,410 sq mi) |
Population (Estimate 2018[1]) | |
• Total | 3,730,000[1] |
ISO 3166 code | IQ-NI |
HDI (2017) | 0.664[2] medium |
Nineveh or Ninawa Governorate (
An ethnically, religiously and culturally diverse region, it was partly conquered by
Recent history and administration
Its two cities endured the
After the invasion, the military of the province was led by (then Major General) David Petraeus of the 101st Airborne Division and later by (then Brigadier General) Carter Ham as the multi-national brigade for Iraq. During the time, the American civil head of the local office of the Coalition Provisional Authority was US Foreign Service Officer and former Kurdish refugee to the States, Herro Mustafa. Mustafa administered her nominees on the provincial council and through members of the Kashmoula family.
In June 2004, Osama Kashmoula became the interim governor of the province and in September of the same year he was assassinated en route to Baghdad. He was succeeded as interim Governor by
In June 2014,
While the Kurdish list proposed Hassan al-Allaf, an Arab affiliated with the Islamic Party,[19] the provincial council elected Nofal Hammadi (formerly Loyalty to Nineveh List) with the votes of the Nahdha bloc.[20]
An
Provincial elections
Geography
Borders
The province borders the governorates of Dohuk, Kirkuk, Erbil, Saladin, and Anbar. It also shares a border with Syria, mostly Al-Hasakah Governorate, and Deir ez-Zor Governorate.
Districts
Nineveh Governorate comprises nine districts (excluding Aqrah), listed below with their areas[21] and populations as estimated in 2018:[22]
No. | District | Name in Arabic |
Population in 2018 |
Area in sq. km |
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1. | Mosul | الموصل | 1,905,174 | 4,318 |
2. | Tel Afar | تلعفر | 511,004 | 4,286 |
3. | Sinjar | سنجار | 325,816 | 3,576 |
4. | Al-Hamdaniya | الحمدانية | 210,601 | 740.6 |
5. | Tel Keppe | تلكيف | 210,263 | 1,218 |
6. | Makhmūr |
مخمور | 209,545 | 2,682 |
7. | Al-Ba'aj | البعاج | 179,520 | 8,359 |
8. | Al-Hadar (Hatra) | الحضر | 59,429 | 11,130 |
9. | Shekhan |
شيخان | 43,984 | 466 |
Total | 3,729,998 | 36,700 |
Demographics
Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. | ||
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1977 | 1,105,700 | — | ||
1987 | 1,479,430 | +2.95% | ||
1997 | 2,042,852 | +3.28% | ||
2009 | 3,106,948 | +3.56% | ||
2018 | 3,729,998 | +2.05% | ||
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Source: Citypopulation[23] |
Nineveh Province is multiethnic. There are significant numbers of
.The majority are
The primary spoken language is
.Proposed Assyrian autonomous region
Many Assyrian leaders advocate an autonomous Assyrian homeland within the Nineveh Province (mostly in the Nineveh Plains region) for the Assyrian population.[24]
See also
- 2005 Nineveh governorate election
- Assyrian homeland
- Genocide of Christians by ISIL
- Genocide of Yazidis by ISIL
- List of churches and monasteries in Nineveh
- List of Yazidi settlements
- Nineveh Plains
- Proposals for Assyrian autonomy in Iraq
References
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- ^ "Sub-national HDI – Area Database – Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
- ^ "محافظة نينوى". ninava.gov.iq (in Arabic). Retrieved 21 December 2019.
- ^ "Bahra Magazine" (PDF). zowaa.co.uk/bahra/s145-1.pdf (in Syriac). Retrieved 27 April 2020.
- ^ Gregorius bar Hebraeus, “” based upon Jean Baptiste Abbeloos and Thomas Joseph Lamy (eds.), Gregorii Barhebræi (Louvain: Peeters, 1872–1877), Digital Syriac Corpus, last modified May 4, 2018, https://syriaccorpus.org/373.
- ^ "PDK û rewşa Civata Parêzgeha Neynewa di perlemana Îraqê de". Kurdistan24 (in Kurdish). Retrieved 21 December 2019.
- ^ "ئەنجوومەنی پارێزگای نەینەوا: پارێزگار دەستیلەکارکێشایەوە و پەسەندمان کرد" (in Kurdish). 19 November 2019. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
- ^ "Ninewa - NCCI Governorate Profile" (PDF). 2010. p. 4. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
- ^ "The Ba'ath Party and Insurgency in Tal Afar" (PDF).
- ^ al-Lami, Mina (21 July 2014). "Iraq: the minorities of Nineveh Plain". BBC News. Archived from the original on 24 July 2014.
- ^ "العبادي يطلق على عمليات تحرير نينوى تسمية "قادمون يا نينوى" أمن". Al Sumaria. 17 October 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
- ^ a b Winter, Charlie (20 October 2016). "How ISIS Is Spinning the Mosul Battle". The Atlantic. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
- ^ Parker, Ned (22 January 2009). "Iraq governor looks back on troubled tenure". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 11 February 2012.
- ^ Sly, Liz (23 June 2009). "In Nineveh, tensions between Iraqi Kurds and Arabs simmer". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 12 February 2012.
- ^ Abdullah Salem (22 August 2013). "Voter's Revolution in Ninawa – Local minorities take over Provincial government". Niqash. Archived from the original on 22 July 2015.
- ^ Robertson, Nic & Smith-Spark, Laura (11 June 2014). "Fresh off Mosul victory, militants in Iraq wrest control of Tikrit". CNN. Archived from the original on 12 June 2014.
- ^ "Iraqi insurgents 'seize new city'". BBC News. 11 June 2014. Archived from the original on 11 June 2014.
- Asharq al-Awsat. Archivedfrom the original on 11 February 2016.
- ^ "Member of Nineveh's Council: Two Candidates For The Post Of The Governor And Negotiations To Select One Of Them". NINA. 21 June 2015. Archived from the original on 17 February 2016.
- ^ "Nofal Hammadi of al-Nahetha bloc elected as Governor of Nineveh succeeding al-Nujaifi". Shafaq. 5 October 2015. Archived from the original on 17 February 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
- ^ COSIT (Central Organization for Statistics and Information Technology), Baghdad.
- ^ "Nīnawā (Governorate, Iraq) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
- ^ "Population of Governorates". www.citypopulation.de.
- ^ Marco Gombacci. "Iraqi Christians ask EU to support the creation of a Nineveh Plain Province". europeanpost.co.
Further reading
- Report on the Administrative Changes in Kirkuk and the Disputed Regions (PDF), Erbil: Kurdistan Regional Government Ministry of Extra Regional Affairs, June 2007, archived from the original (PDF) on 11 January 2015, retrieved 5 April 2015