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.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Bashiqa canonical 5

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Statements (42)

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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Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

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