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Mahad, Iraq

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Mahad
Village
Mahad is located in Iraq
Mahad
Mahad
Location in Iraq
Coordinates: 36°38′50″N 43°24′42″E / 36.64722°N 43.41167°E / 36.64722; 43.41167Coordinates: 36°38′50″N 43°24′42″E / 36.64722°N 43.41167°E / 36.64722; 43.41167
Country Iraq
Region Kurdistan Region
GovernorateDohuk Governorate
DistrictShekhan District

Mahad (Arabic: مهد‎; Kurdish: مەھەتێ ,Mehetê‎)[1][2] is a village located in the Shekhan District of the Dohuk Governorate of Kurdistan Region in Iraq. The village is located 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) southeast of Ain Sifni in the Nineveh Plains.[3]

Mahad is populated by Yazidis.[4] In 1975, Ba'athists made Mahad an exclusively Yazidi settlement as part of their projects of Arabizing the area. They moved the inhabitants from 13 Yazidi villages in the vicinity together into one place and replaced their villages with thousands of Arab settlers. Between 1975 and 2003, these colonizers destroyed most of the Yazidi mausoleums in those villages.

With the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003, Yezidis began returning to their native villages while the Arab settlers left. The Yazidi mausoleums were reconstructed and large numbers of Yazidi brought their dead who were had previously been buried in Mahad, back to their villages.

On 6 August 2014, with ISIS advance, the inhabitants of Mahad fled the area and sought refuge mainly in the nearby cities of Zakho, Amadia and Dohuk. Ten days later, when ISIS advance was pushed back, most of the displaced began returning to Mahad

In 2015, Mahad and the 13 villages in the vicinity still had 9,210 inhabitants. Three years later, in 2018, the population of the complex had reached almost 11,000 inhabitants[5]

References

  1. ^ "4 welatiyên Êzidî li Duhokê jiyana xwe jidest dan". ROJ News (in Kurdish). Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  2. ^ "نڤيسينگەھا لالش مەھەتێ هاريكارى بسەر خێزانێن ھەژار به‌لاڤكرن". p. ku. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  3. ^ Saadi Azuo, Heerish (June 2016). "Graduate school of social sciences general psychology master's programme: Post-traumatic stress disorder among Ezidian women who escaped from ISIS capture" (PDF). Near East University. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
  4. ^ Toperich, Sasha; Ivanovic, Tea (2017). Zagros, Nahro (ed.). "Iraqi Kurdistan Region - A Path Forward" (PDF). Center for Transatlantic Relations - The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (Johns Hopkins University). Washington, DC: Center for Transatlantic Relations.
  5. ^ "The Yazidi sultan ezid mausoleum in Mahad". Mesopotamia. Retrieved 2021-05-31.
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