Nineveh Plains

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The Nineveh Plains is a historically significant region in northern Iraq known for its diverse ethnic and religious minority communities, including Assyrians, Yazidis, and others.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Nineveh Plains canonical 4
Nineveh region (via Tigris) 1

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Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf geographical region
historical region
affectedBy ISIL insurgency in Iraq
Iraq War
contains Alqosh
Bahzani
Bakhdida
Bartella
Bashiqa
Karamlesh
Mar Behnam Monastery
Hamdaniya (Qaraqosh)
surface form: Qaraqosh

Rabban Hormizd Monastery
Tel Keppe
ancient churches
country Iraq
disputedBetween Government of Iraq
surface form: Iraqi central government

Kurdistan Regional Government
ethnicCommunity Arabs
Assyrians
Chaldean Catholic Church
surface form: Chaldean Catholics

Kurdish people
Shabak
Syriac Catholic Church
surface form: Syriac Catholics

Syriac Orthodox Church
surface form: Syriac Orthodox

Yazidis
hasStatus disputed territory
historicallyInhabitedBy Assyrians
Shabak
Iraqi Turkmen
surface form: Turkmen

Yazidis
knownFor ancient Christian heritage
ethnic diversity
religious diversity
languageSpoken Arabic
Kurdish
Neo-Aramaic
Shabaki
liberationYear 2016
locatedEastOf Mosul
locatedIn Nineveh Governorate
northern Iraq
namedAfter Nineveh
occupationStartYear 2014
occupiedBy Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
surface form: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
partOf Mesopotamia
proposedAs autonomous province for minorities
regionType rural area
religiousCommunity Christianity
Islam
Yazidism

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

northern Iraq hasMinorityRegion Nineveh Plains
subject surface form: Northern Iraq
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic spokenIn Nineveh Plains
Syriacs historicalRegion Nineveh Plains
Sureth spokenIn Nineveh Plains
Hiddekel in some historical and religious texts flowsThroughAncientCityRegion Nineveh Plains
subject surface form: Hiddekel
this entity surface form: Nineveh region (via Tigris)