Nineveh Governorate (Arabic: محافظة نينوى,[3]Syriac: ܗܘܦܪܟܝܐ ܕܢܝܢܘܐ, romanized: Hoparkiya d’Ninwe,[4][5]Sorani Kurdish: پارێزگای نەینەوا, romanized: Parêzgeha Neynewa[6][7]), also known as Ninawa Governorate, is a governorate in northern Iraq. It has an area of 37,323 km2 (14,410 sq mi) and an estimated population of 2,453,000 people as of 2003. Its largest city and provincial capital is Mosul, which lies across the Tigris river from the ruins of ancient Nineveh. Before 1976, it was called Mosul Province and included the present-day Dohuk Governorate.[8] The second largest city is Tal Afar, which has an almost exclusively Turkmen population.[9]
An ethnically, religiously and culturally diverse region, it was partly conquered by ISIS in 2014.[10] Iraqi government forces retook the city of Mosul in 2017.[11][12]
Its two cities endured the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and emerged unscathed. In 2004, however, Mosul and Tal Afar were the scenes of fierce battles between US-led troops and Iraqi insurgents. The insurgents moved to Nineveh after the Battle of Fallujah in 2004.
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 Duraid Kashmoula, who was elected governor in January 2005. Duraid Kashmoula resigned in 2009.[13] In April 2009, Atheel al-Nujaifi, a hardline Arab nationalist and member of Al-Hadba, became governor.[14] While al-Nujaifi's Arab Muttahidoon bloc lost its majority to the Kurdish Brotherhood and Coexistence Alliance List in the 2013 provincial election, al-Nujaifi was reelected as governor by a larger Sunni Arab coalition[15] that was later formalized as the Nahda Bloc.
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 offensive to retake Mosul from ISIL control began in October 2016, with Iraqi and Kurdish soldiers supported by a U.S.-led coalition of 60 nations.[12]
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^Sly, Liz (23 June 2009). "In Nineveh, tensions between Iraqi Kurds and Arabs simmer". Los Angeles Times. from the original on 12 February 2012.
^Abdullah Salem (22 August 2013). "Voter's Revolution in Ninawa – Local minorities take over Provincial government". Niqash. from the original on 22 July 2015.
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^"Iraqi insurgents 'seize new city'". BBC News. 11 June 2014. from the original on 11 June 2014.
^Hamza Mustafa (29 May 2015). "Iraq: Nineveh governor sacked following ISIS advances". Asharq al-Awsat. from 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. from the original on 17 February 2016.
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Further reading
Kurdistan Regional Government Ministry of Extra Regional Affairs (June 2007), (PDF), Erbil, archived from the original (PDF) on 11 January 2015, retrieved 5 April 2015
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nineveh, governorate, arabic, محافظة, نينوى, syriac, ܗܘܦܪܟܝܐ, ܕܢܝܢܘܐ, romanized, hoparkiya, ninwe, sorani, kurdish, پارێزگای, نەینەوا, romanized, parêzgeha, neynewa, also, known, ninawa, governorate, governorate, northern, iraq, area, estimated, population, pe. Nineveh Governorate Arabic محافظة نينوى 3 Syriac ܗܘܦܪܟܝܐ ܕܢܝܢܘܐ romanized Hoparkiya d Ninwe 4 5 Sorani Kurdish پارێزگای نەینەوا romanized Parezgeha Neynewa 6 7 also known as Ninawa Governorate is a governorate in northern Iraq It has an area of 37 323 km2 14 410 sq mi and an estimated population of 2 453 000 people as of 2003 Its largest city and provincial capital is Mosul which lies across the Tigris river from the ruins of ancient Nineveh Before 1976 it was called Mosul Province and included the present day Dohuk Governorate 8 The second largest city is Tal Afar which has an almost exclusively Turkmen population 9 Nineveh Governorate محافظة نينوى in Arabic GovernorateTop bottom R L View over Tigris river Church of Saint Thomas Hatra Mosul Rural area The river s gate Mosul Museum Heritage houseFlagSealCoordinates 36 0 N 42 28 E 36 000 N 42 467 E 36 000 42 467 Coordinates 36 0 N 42 28 E 36 000 N 42 467 E 36 000 42 467Country IraqCapitalMosulGovernment GovernorNajim Al JubureeArea Total37 323 km2 14 410 sq mi Population Estimate 2018 1 Total3 730 000 1 HDI 2017 0 664 2 mediumAn ethnically religiously and culturally diverse region it was partly conquered by ISIS in 2014 10 Iraqi government forces retook the city of Mosul in 2017 11 12 Contents 1 Recent history and administration 1 1 Provincial elections 2 Geography 2 1 Borders 2 2 Districts 3 Demographics 3 1 Proposed Assyrian autonomous region 4 See also 5 Notes and references 6 Further readingRecent history and administration Edit Former governor al Nujaifi 2014 in the Yezidian Academy Hanover Germany Its two cities endured the 2003 U S led invasion of Iraq and emerged unscathed In 2004 however Mosul and Tal Afar were the scenes of fierce battles between US led troops and Iraqi insurgents The insurgents moved to Nineveh after the Battle of Fallujah in 2004 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 Duraid Kashmoula who was elected governor in January 2005 Duraid Kashmoula resigned in 2009 13 In April 2009 Atheel al Nujaifi a hardline Arab nationalist and member of Al Hadba became governor 14 While al Nujaifi s Arab Muttahidoon bloc lost its majority to the Kurdish Brotherhood and Coexistence Alliance List in the 2013 provincial election al Nujaifi was reelected as governor by a larger Sunni Arab coalition 15 that was later formalized as the Nahda Bloc In June 2014 insurgents from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant known as ISIS or ISIL overran the capital Mosul forcing an estimated 500 000 refugees to flee the area 16 including governor al Nujaifi 17 who was subsequently deposed by the Iraqi Parliament 18 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 offensive to retake Mosul from ISIL control began in October 2016 with Iraqi and Kurdish soldiers supported by a U S led coalition of 60 nations 12 Provincial elections Edit Main article 2013 Nineveh governorate electionGeography EditBorders Edit 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 Edit Nineveh Governorate comprises 9 districts listed below with their areas 21 and populations as estimated in 2018 22 No District Name in Arabic Population in 2018 Area in sq km1 Mosul الموصل 1 905 174 4 3182 Tel Afar تلعفر 511 004 4 2863 Sinjar سنجار 325 816 3 5764 Al Hamdaniya الحمدانية 210 601 740 65 Tel Keppe تلكيف 210 263 1 2186 Makhmur مخمور 209 545 2 6827 Al Ba aj البعاج 179 520 8 3598 Al Hadar Hatra الحضر 59 429 11 1309 Shekhan شيخان 43 984 466Total 3 729 998 36 700Demographics EditThis section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed August 2014 Learn how and when to remove this template message Historical populationYearPop p a 19771 105 700 19871 479 430 2 95 19972 042 852 3 28 20093 106 948 3 56 20183 729 998 2 05 Source Citypopulation 23 Nineveh Province is multiethnic There are significant numbers of Arabs Assyrians Turkmens Kurds and Yazidis who live in both in towns and cities and in their own specific villages and regions There are also many Armenians Kawliya Mandeans and Shabaks The majority are Sunni Muslim with 80 of the Arabs being Sunni Muslim as well as Turkmens and Kurds also being Sunni Muslim About 5 10 of the population is Christian Generally Yazidis Shabaks and Mandeans are followers of their respective heritage religions Yazidism Shabakism and Mandaeism The primary spoken language is Arabic Minority languages include Turkmen Neo Aramaic dialects Kurdish predominantly Kurmanji and Armenian Proposed Assyrian autonomous region Edit Main article Proposals for Assyrian autonomy in Iraq 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 Edit2005 Nineveh governorate election Nineveh Plains Assyrian homeland List of Yazidi settlements List of churches and monasteries in Nineveh Genocide of Yazidis by ISIL Genocide of Christians by ISIL Proposals for Assyrian autonomy in IraqNotes and references Edit a b Ninawa Governorate Iraq Population Statistics Charts Map and Location 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 Barhebraei Louvain Peeters 1872 1877 Digital Syriac Corpus last modified May 4 2018 https syriaccorpus org 373 PDK u rewsa Civata Parezgeha Neynewa di perlemana Iraqe 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 World 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 amp 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 Hamza Mustafa 29 May 2015 Iraq Nineveh governor sacked following ISIS advances Asharq al Awsat Archived from 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 Ninawa 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 EditKurdistan Regional Government Ministry of Extra Regional Affairs June 2007 Report on the Administrative Changes in Kirkuk and the Disputed Regions PDF Erbil archived from the original PDF on 11 January 2015 retrieved 5 April 2015 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Nineveh Governorate amp oldid 1134569487, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
