Qara Tapa
Town in Diyala Governorate, Iraq
34°42′00″N 45°00′00″E / 34.70000°N 45.00000°E / 34.70000; 45.00000Qara Tapa (Arabic: قرة تبة; Turkish: Karatepe[1][2]) is a predominantly Shia Turkmen town in Diyala Governorate, Iraq.[3][4] It is located south of Kifri. Its name is in the Turkmen dialect, meaning 'black hill'.[5]
History
In 1820, Claudius Rich visited Qara Tapa, describing it as a village populated by Turkmen. It had 700 houses in 1805 and had reduced to 75 due to fleeing from government oppression.[6]
James Buckingham visited Qara Tapa in the 1820s, describing it as a Turkmen populated village. He estimated the town's size at half of Kifri, with a population of 1,000.[7]
References
- ^ "Peşmerge Karatepe, Celavla ve Mendeli'den Çekildi". Türkmeneli Haber. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
- ^ "Khafajah and Kara Tepe, Iraq expedition records". University of Pennsylvania. Penn Libraries. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
- ^ "Türkmen bölgesinde IŞİD'e karşı polis Peşmerge birliği". BBC News. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
- ^ "The Iraqi Via Dolorosa". Masress. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
- ^ "A Briefview on history, dialect and folklore of Iraqi Turkmans".
- ^ Rich, Claudius James. Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan, and on the Site of Ancient Nineveh. pp. 340–342.
Kara Tepeh is peopled by Turcomans. Not fifteen years ago, the village of Kara Tepeh contained seven hundred houses, and now consists of about seventy Most of the inhabitants have been forced to take refuge in Bagdad, from the oppression of their governors.
- ^ Buckingham, James Silk (1827). Travels In Mesopotamia. pp. 351–353.
the language of their conversation with each other, as well as the feature and complexions of all, was still Turkish, and sufficiently bespoke their origin. It appeared to me, to be hardly more than half the size of Kiffree, and the population still less in proportion; that of Kiffree being estimated at three thousand, while the inhabitants of this are thought not to exceed one thousand. The appearance and language of the people are as decidedly Turkish as the name of the place itself, and all seemed to confirm the opinion already expressed as to the common origin and progress of these halting- stations on the road.
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