Siba Sheikh Khidir
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Siba Sheikh Khidir Siba Şêx Xidir الجزيرة | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Siba Sheikh Khidir Location in Iraq | |
| Coordinates: 36°11′2″N 41°45′35″E / 36.18389°N 41.75972°ECoordinates: 36°11′2″N 41°45′35″E / 36.18389°N 41.75972°E | |
| Country |  Iraq |
| Governorate | Ninawa |
| District | Sinjar District |
| Population (July 2014[1]) | |
| • Total | 23,000 |
Siba Sheikh Khidir (Kurmanji: Siba Şêx Xidir, also known in Arabic: الجزيرة, romanized: al-Jazirah, also Jazira or Jazeera) is a Yazidi village located in the Sinjar District of the Ninawa Governorate in northern Iraq. The village is located south of the Sinjar Mount. It belongs to the disputed territories of Northern Iraq. It was one of two villages targeted in the 2007 Yazidi communities bombings against the local Yazidi community.[2][3][4][5]
Siba Sheikh Khidir has exclusively Yazidi population.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Emerging Land Tenure Issues among Displaced Yazidis from Sinjar, Iraq" (PDF). United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN–Habitat). November 2015. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
- ^ Maisel, Sebastian (2016-12-24). Yezidis in Syria: Identity Building among a Double Minority. Lexington Books. ISBN 9780739177754.
- ^ Staff, Our Foreign (2007-08-16). "Iraq bombs: 500 die in worst terror attack". ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2018-01-22.
- ^ Acikyildiz, Birgul (2014-08-20). The Yezidis: The History of a Community, Culture and Religion. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 9781784532161.
- ^ Wander, Andrew. "How suicide bombings shattered Iraq". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2018-01-22.
