Darbandokeh Explained

دەربەندۆک
Type:	village
Coordinates:	36.5834°N 44.3115°W
Governorate:	Erbil
District:	Shaqlawa
Official Name:	Darbandokeh

Darbandokeh (^[1])^[2] is a village in Erbil Governorate in Kurdistan Region, Iraq. It is located in the Shaqlawa District.

In the village, there was a church of Mar Quryaqos.

Etymology

The name of the village is derived from "enclosed place" in Kurdish.

History

Darbandokeh was founded in 1928 by Assyrians from the refugee camp at Baqubah in the aftermath of the Assyrian genocide in the First World War, most of whom belonged to the Nochiya clan from Shemsdin in the Hakkari mountains in Turkey.^[3] By 1938, the village was inhabited by 108 Assyrians in 15 families.

In 1963, amidst the First Iraqi–Kurdish War, Darbandokeh was attacked and its Assyrian population was either killed or expelled by pro-government Kurds, who subsequently resettled the village; the church of Mar Quryaqos was also destroyed.

Notable people

• Dinkha IV (1935–2015), Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East
• Emanuel Kamber (b. 1949), Assyrian-American physicist

References

NotesCitations

Bibliography

• Book: Donabed. Sargon George . 2015 . Reforging a Forgotten History: Iraq and the Assyrians in the Twentieth Century. Edinburgh University Press.

Notes and References

1. Web site: 7 April 2015. افتخروا لأنكم أشوريين وحافظوا على لغتكم و ثقافتكم و تاريخكم. 16 December 2020. ar.
2. News: گەشتێکی شاخەوانی بۆ گەلی کەڕەک. ku. Rûdaw. 16 December 2020.
3. Web site: Population Project. Shlama Foundation. 19 August 2021.