Tal Afar
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title:
Tal Afar
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Tal Afar is a city in the Nineveh Governorate of northwestern Iraq, located 63 km (39 mi) west of Mosul, 52 km (32 mi) east of Sinjar and 200 km (120 mi) northwest of Kirkuk. Its local inhabitants are exclusively Turkmen. While no official census data exists, the city, which had previously been estimated to have a population of approximately 200,000, had dropped to 80,000 as of 2007. Tal Afar's population is about 55 percent Sunni Turkmen, while a 45 percent are Shia Turkmen.
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wiki
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Place in Nineveh Governorate, Iraq
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal_Afar
date created:
2005-09-04T20:10:35Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T02:45:24Z
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