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'''Sharafiya''' is a village located in [[Nineveh Governorate]] in [[Iraq]].
 
The village is located about 40 Kilometers northwest of the city of [[Mosul]], and is on the main road that connects [[Mosul]] to [[Alqosh]], which it is only 5 kilometers south of. Prior to its destruction by the [[Islamic State]], it was home to about 400 families.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Giovanni |first=Janine di |title=The Vanishing: In the field: the burgeoning understanding of moral injury |url=https://harpers.org/archive/2018/12/the-vanishing-christians-in-iraq-syria-egypt/ |access-date=2024-05-04 |work=Harper's Magazine |language=en |volume=December 2018 |issn=0017-789X}}</ref> After the defeat of the Islamic State in the region by the Kurdish [[Peshmerga]], the village's Church of St. George was restored and baptisms of infants resumed in January 2018.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=18 August 2014 |title=Battle rages for control of Mosul dam |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2014/8/18/battle-rages-for-control-of-mosul-dam |access-date=2024-05-04 |website=[[Al Jazeera]] |language=en}}</ref>
'''Sharafiya''' is an [[Assyrians|Assyrian]] village located in [[Iraq]]'s [[Assyrian homeland|Assyrian region]].
The village is located about 40 Kilometers North of the city of [[Mosul]], and is on the main road that connects Mosul to the largest Assyrian town, [[Alqosh]] (Sharafiya is only 5 Kilometers South of Alqosh.) The village is considered to have one of the most beautiful women in the area.
 
==See also==
*[[List of Assyrian settlements]]
*[[Proposals for Assyrian autonomy in Iraq]]
*[[Assyrians in Iraq]]
*[[Yazidis in Iraq]]
 
== Sources ==
The village rests on a plateau that is penetrated by small valleys, and is known for its seasonal crop growing such as wheat, grains and vegetables. The region also is fertile for growing cattle, sheep, goats and domesticated birds (chicken and turkey). The widespread profession of the region’s population is agriculture and growing up domesticated animals, which forms a reasonable source of income.
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{{Nineveh Plains}}
The population of the Sharafiya are all Assyrians. They migrated from their original inhabitancy of [[Hakkari]], southern [[Turkey]], during [[World War I]]. They dwelled in the village since early twenties of the 20th century and are followers of the [[Ancient Church of the East]]. There are few families who belond to the [[Chaldean Catholic Church]]. There are two Churches in the village: A Catholic church and an [[Ancient Church of the East]] named Mar Gewarges (St. George.)
 
[[Category:Populated places in Nineveh Governorate]]
Sharafiya and its surrounding lands are owned by the Church of Alqosh which is known as convent of the Lady (St. Mary Monastery) in Alqosh. The former Iraqi president [[Saddam Hussein]] visited the village in the mid 1980s and was astonished of the cleanness of its residents and their adherence to their village. Upon his learning that they were unable to build new houses because the land was in the possession of the convent of the Lady in Alqosh, he ordered that each family to own a piece of land and assist them in building new houses. The fertile lands that were used for cultivation were, however, kept in the possession of the Church.
[[Category:Assyrian communities in Iraq]]
 
[[Category:Nineveh Plains]]
There is an elementary school in the village attended by 62 students of both genders. The high school students who are numbered some 50 boys and girls attend school in Alqosh. There are 17 college students who attend [[University of Mosul]].
As of 2006, there is a total of 90 families living in Sharafiya totaling 450.
 
There are other Assyrian and [[Yezidis]] villages to the east and south of Sharafiya; [[Tel Skuf]] which is an Assyrian village, is 9 Kilometers south of Sharafiya. Among nearby Yezidis villages are Beban, Shekhka, Hatara and Badriya.
 
[[Category:Cities, towns and villages in Iraq]]
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