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Miqdadiyah (Arabic: المقدادية) (also transliterated Al-Miqdadiyah, Miqdadia, Muqdadiyah). Kurdish, Shareban (شارەبان). Al- Muqdadiyah is a city in the Diyala Governorate of Iraq. The city is located at 33°58′43″N 44°56′13″E, about 80 km northeast of Baghdad and 30 km northeast of Baquba, the capital of Diyala. It has a population of about 298,000 inhabitants.
The city has a mixed population, with Arabs (mostly Sunni) forming the majority. Other inhabitants are the Kurds and Turkomans. Before their mass expulsion in the course of the 1960s and 1970s, the Shia Faili Kurds constituted the majority of the town's population, followed by the Shia Turkomans. The Kurdish population is now a small minority.
Miqdadiyah (Arabic: المقدادية) (also transliterated Al-Miqdadiyah, Miqdadia, Muqdadiyah). Kurdish, Shareban (شارەبان). Al- Muqdadiyah is a city in the Diyala Governorate of Iraq. The city is located at 33°58′43″N 44°56′13″E, about 80 km northeast of Baghdad and 30 km northeast of Baquba, the capital of Diyala. It has a population of about 298,000 inhabitants.
The city has a mixed population, with Arabs (mostly Sunni) forming the majority. Other inhabitants are the Kurds and Turkomans. Before their mass expulsion in the course of the 1960s and 1970s, the Shia Faili Kurds constituted the majority of the town's population, followed by the Shia Turkomans. The Kurdish population is now a small...
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