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{{Infobox settlement
|name = Shekhan
|other_name =
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|settlement_type =[[Districts of Iraq|District]]
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|subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Nation]]
|subdivision_name ={{flag|Iraq}}
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|subdivision_type2 =[[Governorates of Iraq|Governorate]]
|subdivision_name2 = [[Nineveh Governorate|Nineveh]]
|seat = [[Ain Sifni]]
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|established_title = founded
|established_date = {{dts|1924|12|16}}
|area_total_km2 = 1259
|population_as_of = 2003
|population_footnotes = WFP program estimation<ref name=capi/>
|population_total =90590
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The '''Shekhan District''' is a district in the [[Nineveh Province|Nineveh]] governorate of [[Iraq]] with its capital at [[Ain Sifni]].<ref name=capi>{{cite web|title=Basic information about Shekhan District|url=http://www.capiraq.org/Maps/Data3/Shekhan.pdf|website=Christian Aid Program in Iraq |accessdate=October 7, 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425080258/http://www.capiraq.org/Maps/Data3/Shekhan.pdf|archivedate=April 25, 2012|format=PDF}}</ref>

It is bordered by the [[Amadiya]] and Dahuk Districts of the [[Dohuk Governorate|Dahuk Governorate]] to the north, the [[Akre]] district to the east, [[Al-Hamdaniya District]] to the south, and the [[Tel Kaif District]] to the west.

==History==
The '''Shekhan District''' was formed on December 16, 1924.<ref name=capi/> After the [[1935 Yazidi revolt]], the district was place under military control.<ref name=dtic>[http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA405080]</ref><ref name=jstor>Fuccaro, Nelinda. [http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/164402?uid=3738240&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=47698848165747 ''Ethnicity, State Formation, and Conscription in Postcolonial Iraq: The Case of the Yazidi Kurds of Jabal Sinjar'']. International Journal of Middle East Studies Vol. 29, No. 4 (Nov., 1997), pp. 559-580.</ref>

After 1991 the Kurds controlled the northern part of the district. And although unified after 2003 the northern part is still under direct control of the [[Kurdish Regional Government]]

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
| 1977 = 36427
| 1987 = 54559
| 2003 = 90590
| footnote = <ref name=capi/> }}

It is mainly populated by [[Assyrian people|Assyrian]]s and as one of two major population center of the [[Yazidis]] (some times catagorized as Kurdish).<ref name=rn>{{cite news|last1=Shefler|first1=Gil|title=Islamic State accused of capturing Yazidi women and forcing them to convert, or else|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/islamic-state-accused-of-capturing-yazidi-women-and-forcing-them-to-convert-or-else/2014/08/07/5e6080ba-1e70-11e4-9b6c-12e30cbe86a3_story.html|accessdate=October 7, 2014|work=Washington Post|agency=Religion News Service|date=August 7, 2014}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Nineveh Plains}}
{{Districts of Iraq}}
{{coord missing|Iraq}}

[[Category:Districts of Nineveh Governorate]]
[[Category:Assyrian settlements]]

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-It is mainly populated by [[Assyrian people|Assyrian]]s and as one of two major population center of the [[Yazidis]] (some times catagorized as Kurdish).<ref name=rn>{{cite news|last1=Shefler|first1=Gil|title=Islamic State accused of capturing Yazidi women and forcing them to convert, or else|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/islamic-state-accused-of-capturing-yazidi-women-and-forcing-them-to-convert-or-else/2014/08/07/5e6080ba-1e70-11e4-9b6c-12e30cbe86a3_story.html|accessdate=October 7, 2014|work=Washington Post|agency=Religion News Service|date=August 7, 2014}}</ref>
+It is mainly populated by [[Chaldean people|Chaldean]]s and as one of two major population center of the [[Yazidis]] (some times catagorized as Kurdish).<ref name=rn>{{cite news|last1=Shefler|first1=Gil|title=Islamic State accused of capturing Yazidi women and forcing them to convert, or else|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/islamic-state-accused-of-capturing-yazidi-women-and-forcing-them-to-convert-or-else/2014/08/07/5e6080ba-1e70-11e4-9b6c-12e30cbe86a3_story.html|accessdate=October 7, 2014|work=Washington Post|agency=Religion News Service|date=August 7, 2014}}</ref>
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