Kani Balavi

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Kani Balavi
Village
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Kani Balavi (Iraqi Kurdistan)
Coordinates: 37°10′41.4″N43°11′07.3″E / 37.178167°N 43.185361°E / 37.178167; 43.185361
Country Flag of Iraq.svg  Iraq
RegionFlag of Kurdistan.svg  Kurdistan Region
Governorate Dohuk Governorate
District Amadiya District
Sub-district Bamarni

Kani Balavi is a village in Duhok Governorate in Kurdistan Region, Iraq. It is located in the district of Amadiya and the historical region of Barwari Bala. [a]

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In the village, there is a church of Mart Maryam. [7]

History

Kani Balavi was inhabited by 20-30 Assyrian families in 1850. [8] After the Assyrian genocide in the First World War, Assyrian refugees from Ashitha in Turkey settled at Kani Balavi, and the village had a population of 110 people by 1933, [7] in which year it was looted and burned by the Iraqi army during the Simele massacre. [9] In 1938, 20 families populated Kani Balavi. [7] The village had a small Jewish community of several families until their departure in 1949. [10] [8]

The population increased to 190 Assyrians by the Iraqi census of 1957, and in 1961, there were 70 families in 35 houses. [8] The village's population temporarily fled and took refuge elsewhere during the First Iraqi–Kurdish War in the 1960s, and later returned. [11] Kani Balavi was destroyed by the Iraqi army, and its population forcibly expelled, during the Al-Anfal campaign in 1988. [8]

15 Assyrian families returned and rebuilt Kani Balavi, [11] but it was reported that Kurds from neighbouring villages had illegally seized the village's water sources and constructed houses on villagers' land in 1992. [4] In early 2009, 72 displaced Assyrians, with 19 families, resided at Kani Balavi. [12] By 2011, the Supreme Committee of Christian Affairs had constructed 39 houses, a church, and community hall, and developed the village's infrastructure. [2]

In 2012, it was estimated that 15 Assyrians, all adherents of the Assyrian Church of the East, inhabited Kani Balavi. [13] In August 2014, the Assyrian Church of the East Relief Organisation reported there were 45 displaced Assyrian families in the village, [14] and the Assyrian Aid Society provided humanitarian aid in November. [6] As of 2021, 29 Assyrians inhabit Kani Balavi. [15]

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Notes

  1. ↑ (Arabic: كاني بلافي; [1] or كاني بلاف; [2] Kurdish: کانی به‌لاڤ; [3] Syriac: ܟܢܝ ܒܠܦ̮). [2] Alternatively transliterated as Kani Bilaveh, [4] Kani Balaf, [5] Kanya Balave, [5] Kani Balav, [5] or Kani Balave. [6]

Citations

  1. ↑ "قرية كاني بلافي". Ishtar TV . 29 August 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "Kani blavi". Ishtar TV. 25 June 2011. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  3. ↑ KRSO (2009), p. 161.
  4. 1 2 "Universal Periodic Review of the State of Iraq: Annex: Table for 94 cases showing the land grab of the Assyrian villages". Assyrian Aid Society. 28 March 2019. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  5. 1 2 3 Donabed (2015), p. 112.
  6. 1 2 Patto, Christina K.; Eskrya, Eramia S. (2014). "Assyrian Aid Society of Iraq: Annual Report 2014" (PDF). Assyrian Aid Society. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  7. 1 2 3 Donabed (2015), pp. 323–324.
  8. 1 2 3 4 Donabed (2010), p. 207.
  9. ↑ Donabed (2010), p. 290.
  10. ↑ "Kani blavi". www.ishtartv.com. Archived from the original on 2018-02-06. Retrieved 2025-06-19.
  11. 1 2 Eshoo (2004), p. 5.
  12. ↑ "The Struggle to Exist Part I: An Introduction to the Assyrians and their Human Rights Situation in the New Iraq" (PDF). Assyria Council of Europe . February 2010. p. 33. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
  13. ↑ "Christian Communities in the Kurdistan Region". Iraqi Kurdistan Christianity Project. 2012. Archived from the original on 2020-11-24. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  14. ↑ "Relief Campaign In Full Force". Assyrian Church of the East Relief Organisation. 8 August 2014. Archived from the original on 5 March 2021. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  15. ↑ "Population Project". Shlama Foundation. Retrieved 19 August 2021.

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