Community town · Duhok & displacement
Duhok Dihok
A city of the Kurdistan Region that became the main hub for Yazidis displaced from Sinjar.
Overview
About Duhok
Duhok is a provincial city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Since 2014 its province has hosted the largest concentration of Yazidis displaced from Sinjar, both in formal camps and in towns and rented accommodation across the area.
For many families Duhok province has been home for the better part of a decade, and its camps and institutions have become central to contemporary Yazidi life in Iraq.
This is a community place rather than a primarily religious one. Population and return figures move and are always given with a source and a date rather than stated as fixed.
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Coordinates and external references
Coordinates are approximate and provided for orientation. They should be re-checked against an authoritative gazetteer before any operational use.
Source note
References for this place
This entry is an editorial synthesis of the references below, chosen for the place type. It reproduces no restricted or copyrighted text and should be expanded only after specialist review.
The Yezidis: The History of a Community, Culture and Religion
Bloomsbury, 2014. Anchor reference for Yazidi sacred sites, shrines, architecture, and material culture, including Lalish and the shrines of Sinjar and Sheikhan.
The Yezidi Oral Tradition in Iraqi Kurdistan
Routledge, 2001. Reference for place, community, and identity in the Iraqi Yazidi heartland of Sheikhan and Sinjar.
The Other Kurds: Yazidis in Colonial Iraq
I.B. Tauris, 1999. Settlement, society, and administration of Sinjar and Sheikhan in the late Ottoman and mandate periods.