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Şengal
Sinjar (the region)
The story of the name
Tribute to the Şengal region — homeland of Yezidi Kurds, struck by genocide in 2014.
Etymology
Root: Şengal · Toponym
Şengal is the Kurdish name of the mountain and town in northern Iraq known as Sinjar in Arabic. Home of the Yezidi people; in 2014 the site of an attempted genocide. The name has been on this place since well before the Arab conquest.
Updated: 2026-05-02