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Sinjar Mountains

The Sinjar Mountains[1][2] (Kurdish: چیایێ شنگالێ, romanized: Çiyayê Şingalê, Arabic: جَبَل سِنْجَار, romanized: Jabal Sinjār, Syriac: ܛܘܪܐ ܕܫܝܓܪ, romanized: Ṭura d'Shingar),[3] are a 100-kilometre-long (62 mi) mountain range that runs east to west, rising above the surrounding alluvial steppe plains in northwestern Iraq to an elevation of 1,463 meters (4,800 ft). The highest segment of these mountains, about 75 km (47 mi) long, lies in the Nineveh Governorate. The western and lower segment of these mountains lies in Syria and is about 25 km (16 mi) long. The city of Sinjar is just south of the range.[4][5] These mountains are regarded as sacred by the Yazidis.[6][7]

Sinjar

1,463 m (4,800 ft)

36°22′0.22″N 41°43′18.62″E / 36.3667278°N 41.7218389°E / 36.3667278; 41.7218389

of the Lesser Caucasus in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan

İlandağ

List of Yazidi holy places

List of Yazidi settlements

in southeast Anatolia, Turkey

Mount Judi

or Noah

Nuh

Singara

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