Til Ezer

Til Ezer (Kurdish: تل ئه‌زه‌ر, romanized: Tel Ezêr,[2][3] Arabic: القحطانية, also known in Arabic as al-Qaḥṭānīya or Qahtaniyah, also spelled Giruzer, Kar Izir, Kahtaniya) is a village located in the Sinjar District of the Ninawa Governorate in Iraq. The village is located south of the Sinjar Mount, in the disputed territories of Northern Iraq.

Til Ezer
Village
Til Ezer is located in Iraq
Til Ezer
Til Ezer
Location in Iraq
Coordinates: 36°12′7″N 41°41′13″E
Country Iraq
GovernorateNinawa
DistrictSinjar District
Population
 (July 2014[1])
 • Total28,000

Til Ezer is populated by Yazidis.[1] It was one of two villages targeted in the 2007 Yazidi communities bombings against the local Yazidi community.[4]

See also

References
  1. "Emerging Land Tenure Issues among Displaced Yazidis from Sinjar, Iraq" (PDF). United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN–Habitat). November 2015. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
  2. "یه‌به‌شه‌ یادی شه‌هیدانی كۆمه‌ڵكوژییه‌كانی تل ئه‌زه‌ر، سیبا شێخ خدر و كۆچۆی كرده‌وه‌". ANF News. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  3. "Mala Êzdiyan 13 Êzidî radestî rêveberiya Şengalê kir". ANF News (in Kurdish). Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  4. Staff, Our Foreign (2007-08-16). "Iraq bombs: 500 die in worst terror attack". ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2018-01-22.
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