Sharafiya
Sign in to saveSharafiya (, , ) is a village in the Nineveh Plains of northern Iraq, a sub-district of the Tel Kaif District situated 40 km northwest of the city of Mosul and is on the main road that connects Mosul to Alqosh, which it is only 5 kilometers south of.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Sharafiya is referenced by 48 other articles, and connects out to Iraq, Arabic and time zone.
It is catalogued under topics including Assyrian communities in Iraq, Nineveh Plains and Populated places in Nineveh Governorate.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Iraq
- Located in
- Tel Keppe District
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
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Sharafiya (, , ) is a village in the Nineveh Plains of northern Iraq, a sub-district of the Tel Kaif District situated 40 km northwest of the city of Mosul and is on the main road that connects Mosul to Alqosh, which it is only 5 kilometers south of.
Prior to its destruction by the Islamic State, it was home to about 400 families. After the defeat of the Islamic State in the region by the Kurdish Peshmerga, the village's Church of St. George was restored and baptisms of infants resumed in January 2018.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sharafiya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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