Qashqa
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| Coordinates | 35 ° 51 ' N , 44 ° 13' E | ||
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| Autonomous Region | Kurdistan | ||
| Governorate | Erbil | ||
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| height | 274 m | ||
| Residents | 900 (2008) | ||
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Qashqa ( Kurdish قەشقە) is a village in Erbil Governorate in the autonomous region of Kurdistan .
location
Qashqa is located about 40 km south-southeast of the city of Erbil . The Kleine Zab flows nearby. It rises from the Dukan Reservoir - artificially dammed in the Iraqi foothills of the Zagros Mountains - and enables irrigation agriculture in its broad floodplains. The place is located in an earthquake-prone area that stretches along the Zagros Mountains and that has experienced several quakes with a magnitude of 5.8 on the Richter scale in the last few decades.
population
The Circassians make up the majority of the population in Qashqa . These were in the Caucasus War (1817–1864) between Russia and the Caucasian tribes (including Circassians, Abkhazians and Chechens) partly expelled from their homeland on the northern slopes of the Caucasus and then in the Ottoman Empire, including in the area of today's states Turkey, Syria and Iraq settled. In Iraq they make up a minority of less than one percent of the total population and are mainly settled in northern Iraq. Qashqa is next to a small area east of the northern Iraqi city of Zaxo, the only Iraqi area with a Circassian majority.
economy
The inhabitants of Qashqa mainly live from agriculture. In 2004/05 mainly barley (707.75 hectares) and wheat (555.5 hectares) were cultivated on 1396.5 hectares of usable land. Compared to 1998/99 the area under cultivation has decreased. Reasons for this are, for example, imports of wheat as part of the United Nations Oil-for-Food program , the decline in poultry fattening, lower purchasing of food by the government and the resulting fall in prices.
Infrastructure
During the Iraqi regime's Anfal operation against the Kurds in 1988, Qashqa was also bombed. A school, a clinic and two mosques were destroyed. Many residents died or were wounded.
Individual evidence
- ↑ PROJECT INFORMATION DOCUMENT about the reservoir , PDF, 61.1 kB, accessed on December 28, 2009
- ^ Saad Z. Jassim and Jeremy C. Goff: Geology of Iraq . Geological Society Pub House 2008, pp. 87f
- ^ Iraq Ethnic Groups (detailed) , accessed July 12, 2015
- ↑ AGRICULTURE RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR IRAQ, Arbil Winter Crops Survey, 2004/2005 ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , PDF, 5.3 MB, accessed December 28, 2009
- ↑ Testimony before the Iraqi High Tribunal, Second Criminal Court, Baghdad . PDF (3.5 MB) from The Global Justice Project , accessed December 29, 2009
- ↑ PDF (87.3 kB) from UNITED NATIONS General Assembly , accessed on December 29, 2009
