Khatars
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Coordinates | 36 ° 40 ′ N , 43 ° 2 ′ E | |
Country | Iraq | |
Governorate | Ninawa | |
District | Tel Kaif | |
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height | 385 m | |
Residents | 14,000 (estimated) | |
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
- ↑ 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]).
- ↑ Khatārah abandoned populated place, Nīnawá, Iraq. Accessed December 2, 2018 .
- ↑ The Khatare massacre in March 1832 - Yezidi Press . In: Yezidi Press . March 10, 2018 ( ezidipress.com [accessed December 2, 2018]).