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.

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Bashiqa canonical 5

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Predicate Object
instanceOf town
administrativeDivision Bashiqa subdistrict
affectedBy Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017)
capturedBy Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
country Iraq
countrySubdivision Nineveh Governorate
governorate Nineveh Governorate
governorateCapitalNearby Mosul
hasAlternativeName Ba‘shīqa
hasAlternativeTransliteration Bashiqah
hasCulturalHeritage Christian churches
Yazidi temples
hasEthnicCommunity Arabs
Assyrians
Kurds
Yazidis
hasMinorityLanguage Yazidi Kurmanji dialect
hasMinorityStatus Yazidi minority area
hasOfficialLanguage Arabic
hasPopulationType small town
hasReligiousCommunity Christianity
Islam
Yazidism
hasWidelySpokenLanguage Kurdish
Neo-Aramaic
knownFor arack (arak) production
olive cultivation
olive oil production
locatedIn Nineveh Governorate
Northern Iraq
linked to: northern Iraq
locatedNear Mosul
locatedNorthEastOf Mosul
locatedOn Nineveh Plains
partOf Nineveh Plains
disputed territories of Northern Iraq
postConflictIssue reconstruction of religious sites
return of displaced residents
recapturedBy Iraqi forces
linked to: Iraqi Armed Forces

Kurdish Peshmerga forces
linked to: Kurdish Peshmerga
recaptureYear 2016
region Kurdistan Region disputed territories
timeZone UTC+3

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Nineveh Plains contains Bashiqa
Shekhan District containsTown Bashiqa
subject linked to: Shekhan district
Karamlesh nearbyCity Bashiqa
Bahzani locatedNear Bashiqa