Qasrok, Iraq

Qasrok (Kurdish: قەسرۆک ,Qesrok‎,[1][2] Arabic: قصروك‎) is a town located in the Shekhan District of the Ninawa Governorate in northern Iraq. Qasrok's residents are mostly Kurds with a small Assyrian minority. It has a population of 56,400 as of 2018.

This article is about the town in Iraq. For the town in Syria, see Qasrok, Syria.

The town and the surrounding villages were demolished and later recolonized by Arabs during the late 1960s. Most of the Arabs, however, returned to their original settlements after 2003.

History

A number of the town's village's, such as Badariyah, Bajilla, Malla-Birwan, and Kifre, were settled by Assyrians from the Tkhuma tribe and were destroyed during the Simele massacre.[3]

References
  1. "Li Dihok û Silêmanî qeza: 2 kes mirin". ROJ News (in Kurdish). Retrieved 24 December 2019.
  2. "١٢٥ دۆنەمێن گەنمی ل ناحیا قەسرۆک ھاتنە سۆتن | Evro News". p. ku. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
  3. Donabed, Sargon (2015-02-01). Reforging a Forgotten History: Iraq and the Assyrians in the Twentieth Century. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-8605-6.

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