Tel Keppe District

Tel Kaif Classical Syriac: ܬܠ ܟܐܦܐ, Arabic: تل كيف
Tel Keppe District (blue) in Ninawa
Country	Iraq
Governorate	Nineveh
Seat	Tel Keppe
Area
• Total	1,244 km2 (480 sq mi)
Population  (2003)[citation needed]
• Total	167,647
Time zone	UTC+3 (AST)

Tel Keppe District (also Tel Keif, Tall Kayf, Tel Kayf or Tel Kef (Classical Syriac: ܬܠ ܟܐܦܐ), (Arabic: تل كيف)), Aramaic for "Hill of Stones", is a district in Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. It is majority Assyrian and Yazidi with a minority of Arabs.

Towns and villages include:

• Tel Keppe
• Alqosh
• Khatarah
• Tesqopa
• Batnaya
• Sharafiya
• Baqofah
• Bozan
• Beban
• Babirah
• Dughata
• Sreshka
• Khoshaba

• Assyrian settlements
• Assyrian homeland
• Proposals for Assyrian autonomy in Iraq

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Nineveh Plains in Nineveh Governorate, northern Iraq

Main settlements

Al-Hamdaniya District	Qaraqosh Bartella Karamlesh Bashiqa Bahzani
Tel Kaif District	Tel Keppe Alqosh Batnaya Tesqopa Baqofa Sharafiya Bozan Khatarah
Shekhan District	Ain Sifni Dashqotan Qasrok Ba'adra

Religious sites

Christian	Chaldean Catholic Church Rabban Hormizd Monastery (640) Mar Oraha Monastery (6th century) Tomb of Prophet Nahum Syriac Catholic Church Mar Behnam Monastery (4th century) Syriac Orthodox Church Mar Mattai Monastery (363) Monastery of Saint John of Dailam (7th century)
Yazidis	Lalish (1414)

Archaeological sites

• Balawat
• Shibaniba
• Nimrud
• Dur-Sharrukin
• Tell Arpachiyah
• Tepe Gawra

See also

• Peshmerga
• Nineveh Plain Protection Units
• Nineveh Plain Forces
• Qaraqosh Protection Committee
• Dwekh Nawsha

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