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'''Sharafiya''' is a village located in [[Nineveh Governorate]] in [[Iraq]].
'''Sharafiya''' ([[Neo-Aramaic|Syriac]]:<big><big>{{lang|arc|ܫܪܦܝܐ}}</big></big>) is an [[Assyrian people|Assyrian]] village located in The [[Nineveh plains]] region of northern [[Iraq]] in [[Nineveh Governorate]] and is located within the [[Assyrian homeland]]. 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.
 
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>
The village rests on a plateau that is penetrated by small valleys, and has a stream which waters the lands used for growing crops such as wheat, grains and vegetables. The region also is fertile for cattle, sheep, goats and domesticated birds (chicken and turkey).
 
==Population==
lThe population of Sharafiya consists primarily of [[Tyari]]-Assyrians of the [[Assyrian Church of the East]], in addition to some [[Chaldean Catholic Church|Chaldean Catholics]]. They migrated from their original homes in the [[Hakkari]] region of southern [[Turkey]] during the [[Assyrian Genocide]] to Iraq. They then founded this village in 1938 after the [[Simele massacre]]. There are two churches in the village: a Chaldean Catholic church and an [[Ancient Church of the East]] named Mar Gewargis (St. George).<ref>http://www.ishtartv.com/en/viewarticle,35899.html</ref>
 
==Location==
Sharafiya and its surrounding lands are owned by the Chaldean Catholic 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 cleanliness 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 own a piece of land and subsequently assisted them in building new houses. The fertile lands that were used for cultivation were, however, kept in the possession of the Church.
 
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 were 90 families living in Sharafiya, totaling 450 people.
 
There are other Assyrian villages to the east and south of Sharafiya: [[Tel Isqof]] which is an Assyrian village, is 9 Kilometers south of Sharafiya. There are also [[Yezidi]] villages nearby such as Beban, Shekhka, Hatara, and Badriya.
 
==See also==
*[[List of Assyrian settlements]]
*[[Proposals for Assyrian autonomy in Iraq]]
*[[Assyrians in Iraq]]
*[[Yazidis in Iraq]]
 
== Sources ==
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[[Category:Populated places in Nineveh Governorate]]
[[Category:Assyrian communities in Iraq]]
[[Category:Nineveh Plains]]