Khanaqin (KRG) (Sheikh Bawa)

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Khanaqin District (Arabic: خانقين, Kurdish: Xanaqîn, Turkmen: Hanekin) is a district in Diyala Governorate of Iraq.
Khanaqin is a city located in the province of Diyala in Iraq near the border with Iran, estimated at 120,000 people in 2009, and the Khanaqin district is the second largest oil area in northern Iraq after the city of Kirkuk, a border oil field with Iran, the city of Khanaqin Previously, the Alund refinery with a production capacity of 12,000 barrels per day.

The Alund River divides the city of Khanaqin into two parts and the Alund River plays a major role in the development of agriculture in the region. The people of Khanaqin regard the Alund River as one of the timeless and important symbols of their city. The name of the river is referred to as the Alund to the Turkmen Commander (Alond Mirzaoglu), a descendant of Sultan Hassan Al-Tawil Ozon He was the sultan of the Turkic state of Agh Konilo, who was killed in one of the battles he led himself on the banks of the river to be called the river after his name after the River Alond.

The city of Khanaqin from the River Alon and a stone bridge, built on the ruins of an ancient bridge mentioned by the Sapphire Hamwi in the lexicon of countries as a great arch, full of ancient relics and historical remnants, the highest level, and the University of Chicago mission excavated these hills in 1976 in a historical survey campaign in Khanaqin have found the presence of civilizational evidence more than (6000) years old contain ceramic vessels and buildings and ancient writings and temples dating back to the Assyrian medieval times.In 1978 the US mission developed a report on their discoveries described in the old city of Khanaqin, which includes streets, buildings and social systems.

The name of Khanaqin was mentioned before the advent of Islam because it is an area characterized by its commercial and military location. It is an important area of ​​the Sassanid state that ruled Iraq. King Kesra before the rise and spread of the Islamic religion.

The city of Khanaqin is inhabited by a mixture of Arab, Kurdish and Turkmen tribes, and most of its families are fraternal with each other over the years.It is one of the few cities whose inhabitants speak the three languages ​​(Arabic, Kurdish and Turkmen). The Kurdish language in its dialects, Republic and Goran. The majority of Turkmen and Arabs of the people of Khanaqin are fluent in Kurdish and the majority of Kurds are fluent in Arabic and some of them speak the Turkmen dialect as well.