Kirkuk District (Kirkuk) travel guide

Kirkuk (also spelled Karkuk or Kerkuk; Arabic: كركوك, Kirkūk; Ottoman Turkish: کرکوک, Kurdish: كه‌ركووك, Kerkûk; Syriac: </big>, Arrapha; Persian: کرکوک is a city in northern Iraq and capital of Kirkuk Governorate.
The present city of Kirkuk stands on the site of the ancient Hurrian (Khurrite) and Assyrian capital of Arrapha, which sits near the Khasa River on the ruins of a 5,000-year-old settlement. Arrapha reached great importance under the Assyrians in the 10th and 11th centuries BC. Because of the strategic geographical location of the city, Kirkuk was the battle ground for three empires, Assyria, Babylonia, and Media, who controlled the city at various times.
Kirkuk is the centre of the northern Iraqi petroleum industry. It is an historically and ethnically mixed city populated by Assyrians, Kurds, Arabs, Iraqi Turkmen and Armenians. It is located at 35.47°N, 44.41°E, in the Iraqi governorate of Kirkuk, 250 kilometres (156 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad. The Kirkuk region lies between the Zagros Mountains to the north-east, the Zab River and the Tigris River to the west, the Hamrin Mountains (جبل حمرين) to the south, and the Sirwan (Diyala) River to the south-east. The population was estimated at 755,700 in 2003. (...) more....

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