Zakho

Zakho
زاخۆ
Zaxo
City
The Little Khabur flowing through Zakho
Zakho is located in Iraq
Zakho
Zakho
Location in Iraq
Coordinates: 37°08′37.00″N 42°40′54.88″E / 37.1436111°N 42.6819111°E / 37.1436111; 42.6819111
Country Iraq
RegionKurdistan Region
GovernorateDohuk Governorate
DistrictZakho District
Elevation
440 m (1,440 ft)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total500,000
Time zoneUTC+3
 • Summer (DST)not observed

Zakho, also spelled Zaxo (Kurdish: زاخۆ, romanized: Zaxo,[1][2] Syriac: ܙܵܟ݂ܘܿ, romanizedZākhō,[3] Armenian: Զախո,[4] Arabic: زاخو,[5] Lishanid Noshan: זאכו, romanized: Zāxo[6]) is a city in the Kurdistan Region, at the centre of the Zakho District of the Dohuk Governorate, located a few kilometers from the Ibrahim-Khalil border. Zakho is known for its celebrations of Newroz.

The population of the town rose from about 30,000 in 1950 to 350,000 in 1992 due to Kurds fleeing from other areas of the country.[7]

The original settlement may have been on a small island in the Little Khabur river, which flows west through the modern city to form the border between Iraq and Türkiye, continuing into the Tigris. Other important rivers in the area are the Zeriza and the Seerkotik.[8]

  1. ^ "زاخۆ" (in Kurdish). Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  2. ^ Celilê Celil, Dzhalile Dzhalil (1985). Jiyana rewşenbîrî û sîyasî ya Kurdan: di dawîya sedsala 19'a û destpêka sedsala 20'a da (in Kurdish). p. 154.
  3. ^ "List of all entries". Assyrian Languages. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  4. ^ "ԻՐԱՔՅԱՆ ՔՈՒՐԴԻՍՏԱՆ". Արեւմտահայաստանի եւ Արեւմտահայութեան Հարցերու Ուսումնասիրութեան Կեդրոն (in Armenian). 19 October 2010. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  5. ^ "زاخو | كوردستان المدهشة - الموقع الرسمي للسياحة في كوردستان". bot.gov.krd. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  6. ^ Yona Sabar (2002). A Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dictionary: Dialects of Amidya, Dihok, Nerwa and Zakho. p. 156.
  7. ^ Sabar, Y. "Zāk̲h̲ū". Encyclopedia of Islam. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_8099.
  8. ^ http://www.zaxo.at/index.php?page=32 Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 15 May 2011

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