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Amedi : historical sites and moments of a great Kurdish town / Kristian Alex Larsen.
Van Pelt - Zilberman Family Center for Global Collections DS79.9.A44 L37 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Larsen, Kristian Alex, 1960- author.
- Series:
- Avesta/city ; 840/2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- ʻAmādīyah (Iraq)--History.
- ʻAmādīyah (Iraq).
- ʻAmādīyah (Iraq)--Description and travel.
- Physical Description:
- 158 pages : color illustrations, map ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- İstanbul : Avesta, 2023.
- Contents:
- The Sapna Valley
- Connections and crossings
- The first peoples
- The first kings
- Kings of the kings
- Gods and waters
- Parthian rock pictures
- Persia under pressure
- The Arab invasion
- "Al-'Imádiyya"
- The Qubahan school
- Origins of the name Amedi
- The false messiah
- The tomb of Hazkiel, its synagogue and Asenath Barzani
- A short history of the Jews in Kurdistan
- The Mosul Gate
- Lu'lu' : the exceptional ruler
- The Grand Mosque
- Self-governing Kurdish emirates
- The Bahdinan Emirate
- Amedi's catastrophe
- The Dragon Portal and symbol of the Bahdinan Emirate
- Missionaries and misery
- The war that changed everything
- The churches
- Living from the earth
- Ise Dala and his bridge
- Cooling at Sulav
- In between houses
- Memorials of Peshmerga
- The uprising in 1961
- The uprising in 1991
- The future of Amedi.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-158).
- ISBN:
- 9786258383522
- 6258383521
- OCLC:
- 1416646574
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