Faysh Khabur

Faysh Khabur
Town
Faysh Khabur is located in Iraq
Faysh Khabur
Coordinates: 37°4′5″N 42°22′39″E / 37.06806°N 42.37750°E / 37.06806; 42.37750
Country Iraq
Region Kurdistan Region
GovernorateDohuk

Faysh Khabur (Arabic: فيشخابور,[1] Kurdish: پێشابوور, romanized: Pêşabûr[2][3] Syriac: ܦܝܫ ܚܒܘܪ[4]) is a town on the northwestern edge of the Kurdistan Region in the Zakho District of Duhok Governorate of Iraq. It is named after the Khabur River on which the town is built, and lies on the confluence of the Tigris and Khabur river. The town is in a very strategic location, as it lies just 4 km south from the Semalka Border Crossing with Syria as well as being close to the border with Turkey.

The town is populated by Assyrians[5][6] and Yazidis.[7]

  1. ^ "معبر فيشخابور يحدد 50 كغ كأقصى وزن لبضائع المسافرين | ARTA FM". www.artafm.com (in Arabic). Retrieved 24 December 2019.
  2. ^ "Rêveberê deriyê Pêşabûr: Deriyê Sêmalka vekiriye!" (in Kurdish). 29 October 2017. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  3. ^ "لە دەروازەی پێشابوور ئاسانکاری بۆ گەڕانەوەی کوردانی رۆژئاوا دەکرێت". Hawler.in (in Kurdish). 19 July 2020. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  4. ^ Travis, Hannibal Herausgeber. (9 May 2019). The Assyrian genocide : cultural and political legacies. ISBN 978-0-367-34864-9. OCLC 1119072702.
  5. ^ United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Arms Control, International Security, and Science. (1991). The Persian Gulf crisis : joint hearings before the Subcommittees on Arms Control, International Security, and Science, Europe and the Middle East, and on International Operations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Joint Economic Committee, One Hundred First Congress, second session, August 8, September 18, September 25, October 17, November 28, and December 11, 1990. U.S. G.P.O. p. 509. OCLC 23948615.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ Donabed, Sargon (2015-03-01). Reforging a Forgotten History. Edinburgh University Press. p. 307. doi:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748686025.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-7486-8602-5.
  7. ^ Christina Allison (2001). The Yezidi Oral Tradition in Iraqi Kurdistan. pp. 42 & 296.