Alqosh
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Alqosh is a town in the Nineveh Plains of northern Iraq, a sub-district of the Tel Kaif District situated 45 km north of the city of Mosul.
Rabban Hormizd Monastery
Views around the town of Alqosh
Tomb of the Prophet Nahum
Palm Sunday 2018 in Alqosh
Simele massacre
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The Simele massacre, also known as the Assyrian affair, was a massacre committed by the Kingdom of Iraq under the leadership of Kurdish army general Bakr Sidqi. The massacre was committed in August 19
Alqosh
…remains of an orchard and a Syriac Orthodox monastery, which may have originally been part of the Church of the East, and containing springs. After the Simele Massacre this was left and came to be ruined by vandals, and most of the ancient trees cut down or burnt. The Assyrian people had gradually converted from…
Aerial view of Batarshah in northern Iraq, an Assyrian village destroyed by Arabs and Kurds in August 1933
Bakr Sidqi, who led the Iraqi Army during the massacre.
The Lethbridge Herald, 18 August 1933
The targeted villages in the Simele and Zakho districts