Sinjar
Sinjar (Kurdish: شنگال, romanized: Şingal) is a town in the Sinjar District of the Nineveh Governorate in northwestern Iraq. It is located about five kilometers south of the Sinjar Mountains. Its population in 2013 was estimated at 88,023. Its local inhabitants are exclusively Yazidi. The main language spoken by the Yazidis in the town is the Kurmanji dialect of the Kurdish language. In August 2014, it was the site of the Sinjar massacre which was conducted by ISIS towards the local Yazidi population following their capture of the town.[1][2]
Sinjar Media
A map of the Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia) province in the early Islamic era
Coin of Qutb al-Din, the Zengid ruler of Sinjar in 1197–1219, with representation of Roman Emperor Caracalla, Sinjar mint 1199.
Coin of Qutb al-Din Muhammad bin Zengi, Zengid Atabeg of Sinjar (1197–1219). Sinjar mint. Dated AH 607 (AD 1210-1).
Cathedral rising above ruined buildings in the old neighborhood of Sinjar.
Sinjar after the reconquest of the so-called "Islamic State", December 2015
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References
- ↑ "Iraq's Yazidis living in fear on Mount Sinjar". www.aljazeera.com.
- ↑ CNN, Nima Elbagir. "Mass graves, missing children: Brutality in Sinjar". CNN.
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