Hezany

Hezany (Kurdish: هیزانکێ, romanized: Hêzankê,[3][4] Syriac: ܗܝܙܢܐ)[5][6][nb 1] is a village in Dohuk Governorate in Kurdistan Region, Iraq. It is located in the Nahla valley in the Amadiya District.

Hezany
Village
Hezany is located in Iraq
Hezany
Hezany
Location in Iraq
Hezany is located in Iraqi Kurdistan
Hezany
Hezany
Hezany (Iraqi Kurdistan)
Coordinates: Lower Hezany (Hezany Khtetha)[1]
36.86134°N 43.6847°E / 36.86134; 43.6847
Upper Hezany (Hezany Eletha)[2]
36.86701°N 43.68849°E / 36.86701; 43.68849
Country Iraq
Region Kurdistan Region
GovernorateDohuk Governorate
DistrictAmadiya District
Sub-districtChamanke

In the village, there is a church of Mar Gewargis of the Ancient Church of the East.[9][12]

History

After the Assyrian genocide in the First World War, Hezany was resettled by Assyrians from Lower Tyari in 1920, all of whom were adherents of the Church of the East.[13][14] The village was divided into Hezany Eletha (upper Hezany) and Hezany Khtetha (lower Hezany).[10] In 1938, lower Hezany was inhabited by 25 people, with 5 families, and upper Hezany had a population of 155, with 28 families, for a total of 180 people, and 33 families.[14] The population of lower Hezany grew to 210, whereas upper Hezany decreased to 44 by the Iraqi census of 1957, for a total of 254 people.[14]

At the onset of the First Iraqi–Kurdish War in 1961, 100 families in 42 houses inhabited the village.[15] During the war, neighbouring Kurds illegally seized 60 dunams of agricultural land,[7] and Hezany was razed by government irregulars in 1964 and 1969.[14] The population subsequently decreased in lower Hezany to 145, and to 20 people in upper Hezany, for a total of 165 people by 1977.[14] The village was destroyed by the Iraqi government in 1987 during the Al-Anfal campaign, displacing the remaining 110 families.[10]

Hezany was rebuilt and repopulated by 50 families in the aftermath of the 1991 uprisings in Iraq.[15] Although wholly populated by Assyrians, the Kurdistan Regional Government officially imposed the Kurdish name Hezanke on the village.[16] Villagers reported they had suffered from illegal land expropriation by Kurds in 1994 and 1997.[17] A blockade imposed by Kurdistan Democratic Party militants on Hezany and seven other Assyrian villages in the valley in August 1999 by prohibiting the movement of food into the village, which was dependent on food from Akre, was lifted after the intervention of the United Nations and International Committee of the Red Cross.[18]

In early 2009, 29 displaced Assyrians, with 10 families, inhabited the village.[11] As of 2010, upper Hezany is completely uninhabited and lower Hezany partially uninhabited, despite the construction of houses by the Kurdistan Regional Government, due to the lack of infrastructure and poor economic opportunities.[19] Irrigation channels in the village were restored by the Assyrian Aid Society in May 2013.[8] As of 2021, 153 Assyrians inhabit Hezany.[20]

  • Church of Mar Gewargis
    Church of Mar Gewargis
  • A farm in Hezany
    A farm in Hezany

See also

References

Notes

  1. Alternatively transliterated as Hizaneh,[7] Hezaneh,[8] Hazane,[9] Hizanke,[10] or Hizane.[11]

Citations

  1. "Hayzānah as Suflá, Adhamiyah, Dihok, Iraq". Mindat.org. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
  2. "Hayzānah al 'Ulyā, Adhamiyah, Dihok, Iraq". Mindat.org. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
  3. KRSO (2009), p. 160.
  4. "Firokeyên Tirkiyê gundekî Amêdiyê bombebaran dikin". Kurdistan24 (in Kurdish). 6 October 2020. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
  5. "Sholi and Hezani". Ishtar TV. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
  6. "منطقة نهلة قرية شولي وهيزاني / ܦܢܝܬܐ ܕܢܠܐ ܫܘܠܐ ܘ ܗܝܙܢܐ". Facebook. Ishtar TV. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  7. "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.
  8. "Maintenance Of Irrigation Channels In The Villages Of Nahla". Assyrian Aid Society. 5 May 2013. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  9. "Mar Gewargiz church – Hazane". Ishtar TV. 12 October 2011. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  10. Donabed (2015), p. 206.
  11. "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.
  12. Bennett (2016), p. 86.
  13. Donabed (2010), p. 201.
  14. Donabed (2015), pp. 331–332.
  15. Eshoo (2004), p. 9.
  16. "The Struggle to Exist Part III: Treatment and Discrimination of Assyrians in the "Iraqi Kurdistan Region"" (PDF). Assyria Council of Europe. February 2010. pp. 32–33. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  17. "The Struggle to Exist Part III: Treatment and Discrimination of Assyrians in the "Iraqi Kurdistan Region"" (PDF). Assyria Council of Europe. February 2010. p. 15. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  18. "KDP Blockades, Attacks Assyrian Village". Assyrian International News Agency. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  19. "The Struggle to Exist Part III: Treatment and Discrimination of Assyrians in the "Iraqi Kurdistan Region"" (PDF). Assyria Council of Europe. February 2010. p. 24. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  20. "Population Project". Shlama Foundation. Retrieved 19 August 2021.

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