Simele
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Simele or Semel (Template:Langx,[1][2] Template:Langx,[3] Syriac: ܣܡܠܐ[4]) is a town located in the Dohuk province of Kurdistan Region in Iraq. The town is on the main road that connects Kurdistan Region to its neighbor Turkey. It is Template:Cvt west of Dohuk. The town had a population of 71,557 in July 2018.[5]
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Simele was populated by Armenian and Assyrian refugees fleeing massacres during Sayfo and the Armenian genocide.[6] During the Simele massacre in 1933, around three thousand Assyrians were massacred prompting many to flee the country as a consequence.[7][8] The main Assyrian tribe in Simele at the time was Baz.[9]
In 2011, the population was mostly Kurdish with a small Assyrian minority of 635 people. Around half of the Assyrian minority adhere to the Assyrian Church of the East.[10] A small Armenian minority is still exists in the town.[10]
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