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    Rawandiz (Kurdish: ڕەواندز, romanized: Rewandiz) is a city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, located in the Erbil Governorate in Soran district, close to...
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    village mill in Erbil Delal Bridge in Zakho Duhok Canyon near to the city of Rawandiz Erbil Akre The archaeological hills in Erbil "Kurdistan Region Statistics...
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    Kurdistan by Ottoman Empire in 1514 and later revived by Emir Kor centered in Rawandiz from 1816 to 1836. Kor was ousted in an offensive by the Ottomans. While...
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    strategic road across Southern Kurdistan, which ran from Erbil, through Rawandiz, to the Iranian border near modern-day Piranshahr. The road became known...
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    is the capital of the district. Rawandiz District consists of the two sub-districts of Rawandiz and Wertê. Rawandiz is the capital of the district. Şeqlawe...
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    district encompasses one sub-district, Warte, and 12 villages. The district is 123 km from Erbil. Rawandiz Bekhal Waterfall Erbil Official Website v t e...
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  • been in Rawandiz. There were five sub-districts in Soran, being Mergasur, Diyana, Khalifan, Rawandiz and Sidekan. Recently, however, Rawandiz became a...
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    Urartu and the kingdom of Musasir in early 1st millennium BCE. Modern Rawandiz district was a religious center of the Urartians. The Medes conquered the...
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    consecutive attacks between 15 May and 16 August 1988, the valleys of Rawandiz and Shaqlawa were targeted, and the attacks had different successes. The...
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    assault aimed at breaking through Kurdish defenses and seizing control of Rawandiz. However, the Kurds had anticipated this strategy and had prepared accordingly...
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    and 500 km2 from Lake Çıldır near Ardahan in Turkey to the region of Rawandiz in Iraqi Kurdistan. The kingdom emerged in the mid-9th century BC and dominated...
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  • 1510–1609) was a hereditary Kurdish emirate, ruling roughly the area from Rawandiz to Targavar and Margavar south of Urmia at its height. The emirate was...
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  • Orontes II or Yervand II Orontes III or Yervand III Orontes IV or yervand IV Rawandiz, a city in Iraq whose name is derived from a name which was spelled "Orontes"...
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    ھەولێر Arabic: محافظة أربيل Governorate Clockwise, from top: Canyon in Rawandiz, Koy Sanjaq, Shaqlawa and Citadel of Erbil Seal Location of the Erbil Governorate (red)...
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    Mehemedê Rewandizî; also known as Mirê Kor - the "blind prince"; born in Rawandiz; 1783–1838) was Kurdish Mir of the Soran Emirate (1813–1838). He led an...
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  • dvin get their liberty Rawandiz Revolt (1834)  Kurdistan Soran Emirate  Ottoman Empire Bohtan Victory Mir Muhammad Pasha of Rawandiz resumes his project...
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  • include the subjugation of the Simko Shikak revolt forcing Simko to flee to Rawandiz in Iraqi Kurdistan – where he sought the support of Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji...
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    Mir Muhammed, the Kurdish Emir of the Soran Emirate, situated around Rawandiz was able to depose his rivals and control a region stretching from Mardin...
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    the Kurdistan Region, in Erbil Governorate. It is located 10 km west of Rawandiz and 135 km from Erbil. This waterfall hosts many visitors and tourists...
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    the town was once again sacked, this time by the Kurdish governor of Rawandiz who also sacked the town of Alqosh. On 6 August 2014, the town was captured...
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    first created in the 15th-16th century A girl wearing a Kurdish uniform in Rawandiz Kurdish culture Kurdish dance Kurdish music O'Shea, Maria T. "Kurdish Costume:...
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    orientalist Ilya Berezin mentioned that 7,000 Yazidis were killed by Kurds of Rawandiz on the hills of Nineveh near Mosul, shortly before his arrival. According...
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  • Empire Egypt Eyalet Diriyah Victory End of the First Saudi State 1813–1836 Rawandiz Revolt Ottoman Empire Supporters: Yazidis troops Assyrians troops  United...
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  • Army operations against the Kurd rebels, specially in Amadiya in 1965 and Rawandiz 1966. During the al-Anfal campaign, the military campaign of genocide and...
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    with help from Assyrians and Armenians, massacred around 8,000 Kurds in Rawandiz. In 1916, around 300,000 Kurds from Bitlis, Erzurum, Palu and Muş were...
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    main temple of worship for Haldi in Musasir, believed to be near modern Rawandiz, Iraq). Haldi was not initially worshipped by Urartians, at least as their...
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    Muṣaṣir. H. F. B. Lynch claimed that it was close to the modern town of Rawandiz in Iraqi Kurdistan. Urartologist Paul Zimansky speculated that the Urartians...
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    including in and around the cities of Mosul, Erbil, Kirkuk, Dohuk, Amedi and Rawandiz, and there are a fair number of exclusively Assyrian towns, villages, hamlets...
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    He formed a Kurdish cavalry against Russian troops when they invaded Rawandiz, Iraqi Kurdistan in 1916. He witnessed the unrest of Urmiah between Kurds...
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  • romanized: Xelîfan), is a town located in Erbil Province, Kurdistan Region in Iraq, near Rawandiz. It is located 80 northeast of Erbil and the majority of its population...
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