The Best Attractions In Kirkuk Province

Kirkuk is a city in Iraq, serving as the capital of the Kirkuk Governorate, located 238 kilometres north of Baghdad. Kirkuk lies in a wide zone with an enormously diverse population and has been multilingual for centuries. There were dramatic demographic changes during Kirkuk's urbanization in the twentieth century, which saw the development of distinct ethnic groups. Kurds, Iraqi Turkmen, Arabs and Assyrians lay conflicting claims to this zone, and all have their historical accounts and memories to buttress their claims. The city sits on the ruins of the original Kirkuk Citadel, site of the ancient mid-3rd millennium BC, Assyrian city of Arrapha, and ...
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The Best Attractions In Kirkuk Province

1. Kirkuk Citadel Kirkuk
Kirkuk is a city in Iraq, serving as the capital of the Kirkuk Governorate, located 238 kilometres north of Baghdad. Kirkuk lies in a wide zone with an enormously diverse population and has been multilingual for centuries. There were dramatic demographic changes during Kirkuk's urbanization in the twentieth century, which saw the development of distinct ethnic groups. Kurds, Iraqi Turkmen, Arabs and Assyrians lay conflicting claims to this zone, and all have their historical accounts and memories to buttress their claims. The city sits on the ruins of the original Kirkuk Citadel, site of the ancient mid-3rd millennium BC, Assyrian city of Arrapha, and which sits near the Khasa River. The city is mentioned during the Sumero-Akkadian period of Assyria in cuneiform script from about 2400 BC. ...
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2. Bawa Gurgur Park Kirkuk

Kirkuk Province Videos

Salahadin Province - Iraq

Salahadin or Salah-ad-Din province in Iraq is the heartland of Iraq where famous, fabulous, proud, intelligent, talented and many of Iraq’s brave army and air force officers hale from. Salahadin province is named after Saladin (Salah ad-Din), a Muslim leader who defeated the Crusaders in Palestine at the Battle of Hattin in 1187, it is also host to other famous, popular and ancient Iraqi cities like Samarra, Tikrit, Ad-Dawr or (Al-Dour), Al-Shirqat, Baiji, Balad, Tuz-Khormato, Ad-Dujail and few other PROUD Iraqi villages and cities ... Magnificent places you won't believe your eyes and you wouldn’t think 10,000+ ancient and wonderful places still exist in the cradle of civilization once known as Mesopotamia and best known today as Iraq

Visit to Iraq

This is a 10 minute portion of a video I took when I visited Iraq in 2006 with Ron Sawl and Bryan Burry as the guest of the 101st Airborne in Tikrit, Iraq. We were involved with Brotherhood of the Badge, an organization that supplied surplus civilian police gear to Iraqi police officers. The area was still a very active combat area when we visited.

The first part of the video shows preparation for our combat patrol, a visit to one of Saddam's palaces as well as one he built for his mother after she died.
It then shows our visit to a police substation in Bayji, a place that had been repeatedly attacked.

Included in the video is something very historic. We were invited to attend the regional government meeting of all the democratically elected officials from the cities in the Salah ad Din Province. This meeting was the first of its kind EVER in the history of Iraq. We witnessed the birth of democracy in that country.

Also at the end of the video shows a graduation ceremony of police cadets at a training center located in Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdish region where we were the guests of honor. The joy of the cadets after graduating is the highlight of the whole video

A Night at an Iraqi Amusement Park

An evening visit to Dream City, the star attraction in Dohuk, located in Iraq's northern Kurdistan Region.

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The Best Attractions In Kirkuk Province