Aqrah

Aqrah or Akre is a metropolis in Iraqi Kurdistan. The city's cathedral is the episcopal see of the Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Aqra, an Eastern Catholic diocese, suffragan to the indigenous Assyrians of Mesopotamia. The district of Aqrah became fashioned in 1877 by the Ottoman Empire and the town of Aqrah have become the middle of the district. 'Aqr become the fief of the Kurdish Humaydi tribe since the 10th century, as such, Yaqut al-Hamawi, indicated that it became also called ‘Aqr al-Ḥumaydiya.

The 14th-century Shihab al-Umari, also stated the presence of the Yazidi Dasni tribe. Yazidis are a on the whole Kurmanji-speaking ethnoreligious organization, or an ethnic Kurdish minority indigenous to Iraq, Syria and Turkey who're strictly endogamous. A massive a part of the autochthonous Yazidi populace of Turkey fled the country for present-day Armenia and Georgia beginning from the overdue nineteenth century. The populace is specially Kurdish. There is an Assyrian minority. Assyrian human beings, are a Semitic ethnic organization indigenous to Middle East. Some of them self-identify as Arameans,or as Chaldeans.