Folio § shengal
Şengal
Sinjar (regionen)
Berättelsen om namnet
Hyllning till Şengal-regionen — yezidiska kurdernas hemland, drabbat av folkmord 2014.
Etymologi
Rot: 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.
Uppdaterad: 2026-05-02