Dughata
Doxata
دوغات
Village
Dughata is located in Iraq
Dughata
Dughata
Location in Iraq
Coordinates: 36°38′33″N 43°6′48″E / 36.64250°N 43.11333°E / 36.64250; 43.11333
Country Iraq
Region Kurdistan Region (de facto)
GovernorateNineveh Governorate (de jure)
Dohuk Governorate (de facto)
DistrictTel Kaif District

Dughata (also written Doghata, Dughat, Doghan or Dokhata, Arabic: دوغات; Kurdish: دۆخاتا, romanized: Doxata[1]) is a village located in the Tel Kaif District of the Ninawa Governorate in northern Iraq. The village is located ca. 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) south of Alqosh and ca. 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) north of Telskuf in the Nineveh Plains. It belongs to the disputed territories of Northern Iraq.[2][3]

Dughata has an exclusively Yazidi population.[3]

Yazidi temple in Dughata

References

  1. ↑ "Bi çavdêrya berêz"Şêx Şamo" qenepe bo holên laliş li Gundên Xoşaba û Doxata hatine dabînkirin". Bingehê Laliş (in Kurdish). Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  2. ↑ Saadi Azuo, Heerish (June 2016). "Graduate school of social sciences general psychology master's programme: Post-traumatic stress disorder among Ezidian women who escaped from ISIS capture" (PDF). Near East University. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
  3. 1 2 "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, Hammurabi Human Rights Organization. February 2010. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
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