Alqosh

Alqosh
ܐܲܠܩܘܿܫ
ألقوش[1]
Town
Entry way sign, spelling "I ♡ Alqosh"
Entry way sign, spelling "I ♡ Alqosh"
Alqosh is located in Iraq
Alqosh
Alqosh
Coordinates: 36°43′56″N 43°5′43″E / 36.73222°N 43.09528°E / 36.73222; 43.09528
Country Iraq
GovernorateNineveh Governorate
DistrictTel Kaif District[2]
Founded1500 BC
Time zoneGMT +3
 • Summer (DST)GMT +4

Alqosh (Syriac: ܐܲܠܩܘܿܫ,[4][5][6] Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אלקוש, Arabic: ألقوش,[1] alternatively spelled Alkosh, Alqoš, or Alqush) is a town in the Nineveh Plains of northern Iraq, a sub-district of the Tel Kaif District situated 45 km north of the city of Mosul.

The locals of Alqosh are Assyrians who since the 18th century now mostly adhere to the Chaldean Catholic Church.[7][8][9] During the Iron Age, the Alqosh plain appears to have been home to the small regional kingdom of Qumāne, but was subsequently annexed by Assyria.[10]

  1. ^ a b معاناة الكورد الايزديين فيá ظل الحكومات العراقية، 1921–2003. University of California, Berkeley, US. 2008.
  2. ^ "Al Qūsh, Tel Keppe District, Muḩāfaz̧at Nīnawá, Iraq".
  3. ^ "Iraq: Situation report No. 19". ReliefWeb.
  4. ^ Maclean, Arthur John (1901). Dictionary of the Dialects of Vernacular Syriac. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 13b.
  5. ^ Payne Smith, Robert (1879–1901). Thesaurus Syriacus (in Latin). Oxford: Clarendon Press. 221.
  6. ^ Thomas A. Carlson, “Alqosh – ܐܠܩܘܫ ” in The Syriac Gazetteer last modified June 7, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/19.
  7. ^ Hirmis, Aboona (2008). Assyrians, Kurds, and Ottomans: Intercommunal relations on the periphery of the Ottoman Empire. United States: Cambria Press. p. 36.
  8. ^ "The Fate of Iraq's Indigenous Communities". Fair Observer. 25 January 2017.
  9. ^ James F. Coakley, "Assyrians" in Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition, edited by Sebastian P. Brock, Aaron M. Butts, George A. Kiraz and Lucas Van Rompay quote: Among Chaldean Catholics, the ethnic term ‘Assyrian’ now has had to compete with the theological term ‘Chaldean’ as the preferred ethnic name. Some have adopted ‘Assyro-Chaldean’ as a compromise.
  10. ^ K. Radner, "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Muṣaṣir, Kumme, Ukku and Šubria – the Buffer States between Assyria and Urarṭu," in: S. Kroll et al. (eds.), Biainili-Urartu. The Proceedings of the Symposium held in Munich 12-14 October 2007, Peeters 2012: 243-264: 245.