Hamrin Mountains

Hamrin Mountains
View over Hamrin mountains
Highest point
Elevation250–1,000 m (820–3,280 ft)
Coordinates35°01′57″N 43°38′47″E / 35.0325°N 43.6463889°E / 35.0325; 43.6463889
Geography
Hamrin Mountains is located in Iraq
Hamrin Mountains
Hamrin Mountains
Parent rangeZagros Mountains
Geology
Mountain typeAnticlinal fold

The Hamrin Mountains (Arabic: جبل حمرين, romanized: Jabāl Hamrīn, Kurdish: چیای حەمرین, romanized: Çiyayê Hemrîn or Çiyayên Hemrîn) are a small mountain ridge in northeast Iraq. The westernmost ripple of the Zagros Mountains,[1] the Hamrin mountains extend from the Diyala Governorate bordering Iran, northwest to the Tigris river, crossing northern Saladin Governorate and southern Kirkuk Governorate.

Historically the Hamrin mountains were called Barima, Bārimā and Birimma (Arabic: جبل بارِمّا, romanized: Jabāl Bārimā).[2] Ibn Khaldun, a 14th century historian called the Hamrin mountains range, the "Kurdish mountains". That is because these mountains are situated in the south of Kirkuk and Kurds lived there, so, Ibn Khaldun said, "the range Hamrin mountains is a place whose people are Kurdish."[3][4]

References

  1. ^ Maisels, Charles Keith (1999). The Near East: Archaeology in the 'Cradle of Civilization'. Routledge. p. 126. ISBN 0-415-18607-2.
  2. ^ فرنسيس, بشير يوسف. موسوعة المدن والمواقع في العراق - الجزء الأول (in Arabic). E-Kutub Ltd. pp. 332–333. ISBN 978-1-78058-262-7.
  3. ^ عمر, مولود، محمد (2009). الفدرالية وامكانية تطبيقها كنظم سياسي: (لعراق نموذجن) (in Arabic). المؤسسة الجامعية للدراسات والنشر والتوزيع،. ISBN 978-9953-515-59-5.
  4. ^ Ibn khaldun, al muqadima (The introduction), Beirut, p 74


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