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'''Faysh Khabur''' ({{lang-syr|ܦܝܫܐܒܘܪ}}, {{lang-ar|فيشخابور}}) is the [[Iraq|Iraqi]] town of Pesh Khabur ("pre [[Khabur]]" in Kurdish--it is named after a smaller counterpart river to much larger [[Khabur River]] to its west inside [[Syria]]) on which the town is built. In addition to Kurds, there is a large [[Assyrian people|Assyrian]] community in the strategic town, located on the confluence of Pesh Khabur River with the [[Tigris]]. Along with the [[Dohuk Governorate]] in which it is located, town of Pesh Khabur is under the [[Kurdish Regional Government]] jurisdiction, in Northern [[Iraq]] on the [[Turkey|Turkish]] borders.

The town is famous as a main crossing point to Syria and Turkey lying just 4km from the [[tripoint]] of the three countries. Faysh Khabur is inhabited by [[Assyrian people|Assyrians]] who mainly belong to [[Chaldean Catholic Church]].

== History ==
The town has been connected with the [[Sassanian]] city "Peroz-Shapur", and the modern name is thought to be influenced by the Persian one. The first mention of the settlement is attested as far as the 4th Century A.D. It was early Christianised and belonged to the [[Church of the East]] before following the [[Chaldean Catholic Church]] in the 18th century.<ref name=ahewar1>{{cite web|last=بيداويد|first=يوحنا|script-title=ar:بمناسبة اعتراف برلمان السويدي بمذابح سيفو، ماذا حصل في فيشخابور وسهل نافرويي سنة 1915|url=http://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=207895|publisher=الحوار المتمدن|accessdate=25 March 2012|language=ar}}</ref>
The town was attacked by [[Kurd]]ish irregulars allied with the [[Ottomans]] during the [[Assyrian Genocide]] which left hundreds dead and forced the rest to flee to [[Mosul]] and [[Alqosh]]. Most of its inhabitants returned to their village during the [[British Mandate for Mesopotamia]].<ref name=ahewar1/>

A number of its [[Assyrian people|Assyrian]] inhabitants were attacked by the [[Iraqi Army]] during the [[Simele Massacre]] in August 1933. The village was targeted again during the [[First Kurdish–Iraqi War|first Kurdish rebellion]] by the Sindi Kurdish tribe first and later by the Iraqi Army, this forced the inhabitants to seek refuge in [[Khanik]], another Assyrian village across the border in Syria, until 1975. Faysh Khabur was again emptied by the Iraqi government in 1976 when the [[History of Iraq (1968–2003)|Baathist government]] expelled its Assyrian population and settled Arabs in the village.<ref name=zowaa>{{cite web|script-title=ar:مبروك فيشخابور|url=http://www.zowaa.org/nws/ns7/n200609-6.htm|publisher=Zowaa.org|accessdate=25 March 2012|language=ar}}</ref>
Most Arabs settlers left after the [[1991 uprisings in Iraq|1991 uprising]], and Faysh Khabur was this time occupied by Kurds from neighbouring villages. Those were finally relocated and the village was resettled by its Assyrian inhabitants in 2005.<ref name=zowaa/> Fhaysh Khabur is today a part of the Kurdish autonomous region.

== See also ==
{{Portal|Assyrians|Iraq}}
*[[Dayrabun]]
*[[Khanik]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Populated places in Dohuk Province]]
[[Category:Assyrian settlements]]
[[Category:Assyria]]

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