Bashiqa
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Bashiqa is a town in northern Iraq’s Nineveh Governorate, known for its diverse ethnic and religious communities and its location on the Nineveh Plains near Mosul.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bashiqa canonical | 2 |
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | town ⓘ |
| administrativeDivision | Bashiqa subdistrict NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| affectedBy | Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capturedBy | Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Iraq ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | Nineveh Governorate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governorate | Nineveh Governorate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governorateCapitalNearby | Mosul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Ba‘shīqa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTransliteration | Bashiqah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulturalHeritage |
Christian churches
ⓘ
Yazidi temples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEthnicCommunity |
Arabs
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Assyrians NERFINISHED ⓘ Kurds NERFINISHED ⓘ Yazidis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMinorityLanguage | Yazidi Kurmanji dialect ⓘ |
| hasMinorityStatus | Yazidi minority area ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage | Arabic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPopulationType | small town ⓘ |
| hasReligiousCommunity |
Christianity
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ Yazidism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWidelySpokenLanguage |
Kurdish
ⓘ
Neo-Aramaic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
arack (arak) production
ⓘ
olive cultivation ⓘ olive oil production ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Nineveh Governorate
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Northern Iraq NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Mosul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNorthEastOf | Mosul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Nineveh Plains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Nineveh Plains
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
disputed territories of Northern Iraq ⓘ |
| postConflictIssue |
reconstruction of religious sites
ⓘ
return of displaced residents ⓘ |
| recapturedBy |
Iraqi forces
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kurdish Peshmerga forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recaptureYear | 2016 ⓘ |
| region | Kurdistan Region disputed territories NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | UTC+3 ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Shekhan District