Khatars

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Khatars
location
Khatare (Iraq)
Khatars
Khatars
Coordinates 36 ° 40 ′  N , 43 ° 2 ′  E Coordinates: 36 ° 40 ′  N , 43 ° 2 ′  E
Country IraqIraq Iraq
Governorate Ninawa
District Tel Kaif
Basic data
height 385  m
Residents 14,000 (estimated)
View of Khatare with a Yazidi temple in the foreground
View of Khatare with a Yazidi temple in the foreground

Khatare (also Khatara / Khatarah or Hatarah , Arabic ختاره, Kurmanji Xatarê even Xatara) is a jesidisches village in the north of Iraq . The village is located about 15 km southwest of Alqosh in the Tel Kaif district in the Ninawa governorate . The place is located in the Nineveh Plain and is one of the disputed areas of Northern Iraq .

population

To the population Khatares mainly include Yazidis .

history

In March 1832 there was a massacre of the Yazidi population of Khatares by the Kurdish prince Mohammed Pascha Rewanduz .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yezidin reports on the desperate situation of civilians in contested areas of Iraq . In: Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) . ( gfbv.de [accessed on December 2, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Khatārah abandoned populated place, Nīnawá, Iraq. Accessed December 2, 2018 .
  3. ↑ The Khatare massacre in March 1832 - Yezidi Press . In: Yezidi Press . March 10, 2018 ( ezidipress.com [accessed December 2, 2018]).