Ankawa (
AramaicNeo-Aramaic, or Modern Aramaic, languages are varieties of Aramaic that are spoken vernaculars in the medieval to modern era, evolving out of Middle Aramaic dialects around AD 1200 ....
:
ܥܢܟܒܐ, Arabic:
عنكاوا,
‘Ankāwā), is an Iraqi town of about 20,000 people, in practice a suburb of
ArbilArbil is believed to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and is the third-largest city in Iraq after Baghdad and Mosul. The city lies eighty kilometres east of Mosul...
, Erbil Governorate in northern
IraqIraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , also known as Mesopotamia, is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert.Iraq shares borders with Jordan to the west, Syria...
. The town is predominantly
ChristianA Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic, religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, who Christians believe was the Messiah prophesied in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, and the Son of God.The term "Christian" is also used adjectivally to...
, comprising mostly [Chaldean-Babylonian]- adherents of the
Chaldean Catholic ChurchThe Chaldean Catholic Church or the Chaldean Church of Babylon The Chaldean Catholic Church or the Chaldean Church of Babylon The Chaldean Catholic Church or the Chaldean Church of Babylon ( ,Syriac ܥܕܬܐ ܟܠܕܝܬܐ ܩܬܘܠܝܩܝܬܐ is an Eastern particular church of the Catholic Church, maintaining full...
and the
Church of the EastChurch of the East may refer to the Church centered in Assyria, modern Iraq, Iran, and Syria inaccurately named Nestorian in the West before it was divided into the three bodies below...
.
The town houses the compounds for the majority of the NGOs and international organizations active in the north of Iraq.
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Ankawa (
AramaicNeo-Aramaic, or Modern Aramaic, languages are varieties of Aramaic that are spoken vernaculars in the medieval to modern era, evolving out of Middle Aramaic dialects around AD 1200 ....
:
ܥܢܟܒܐ, Arabic:
عنكاوا,
‘Ankāwā), is an Iraqi town of about 20,000 people, in practice a suburb of
ArbilArbil is believed to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and is the third-largest city in Iraq after Baghdad and Mosul. The city lies eighty kilometres east of Mosul...
, Erbil Governorate in northern
IraqIraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , also known as Mesopotamia, is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert.Iraq shares borders with Jordan to the west, Syria...
. The town is predominantly
ChristianA Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic, religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, who Christians believe was the Messiah prophesied in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, and the Son of God.The term "Christian" is also used adjectivally to...
, comprising mostly [Chaldean-Babylonian]- adherents of the
Chaldean Catholic ChurchThe Chaldean Catholic Church or the Chaldean Church of Babylon The Chaldean Catholic Church or the Chaldean Church of Babylon The Chaldean Catholic Church or the Chaldean Church of Babylon ( ,Syriac ܥܕܬܐ ܟܠܕܝܬܐ ܩܬܘܠܝܩܝܬܐ is an Eastern particular church of the Catholic Church, maintaining full...
and the
Church of the EastChurch of the East may refer to the Church centered in Assyria, modern Iraq, Iran, and Syria inaccurately named Nestorian in the West before it was divided into the three bodies below...
.
The town houses the compounds for the majority of the NGOs and international organizations active in the north of Iraq. The town is adjacent to the new
Erbil International AirportErbil International Airport is an airport located in the north western part of the city of Erbil adjacent to the suburb of Ankawa in Iraqi Kurdistan....
http://www.ankawa.com.
The majority of the refugees that left Ankawa now lives in
SwedenSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe...
, most of them are living in
EskilstunaEskilstuna is a city and the seat of Eskilstuna Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden with 60,185 inhabitants in 2005. Eskilstuna has a large Sweden Finn population....
(3,000), with
AustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the continental mainland , the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans...
(2,000) being the second most common destination. The rest has mainly settled in
CanadaCanada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
or the USA. The current security situation in Ankawa is stable, which has led to an influx of internally displaced persons from other parts of Iraq
http://www.ankawa.com.
Ankawa is a beautiful town that has remained home to many of the same Chaldean descendants since its formation,they helped this town grow and retain its history.
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