Kirkuk sits on the ruins of the original Kirkuk Citadel which sits near the Khasa River. It is described by the Kurdish leader and former Iraqi president Jalal Talabani as “the Jerusalem of Kurdistan”, while it is seen by the Turkmen activist Fatih Salah as the cultural and historical capital of Iraqi Turkmens. [8] .

Kirkuk is a central component of the Kurdish story in Iraq. Historically, it is one of the oldest sites of continuous occupation in Iraq, dating back over 5,000 years. [1] According to the Encyclopedia of Islam, the Kurds predate other ethnic groups in Kirkuk, the second oldest ethnic group being the Turkomans. For decades, the various ethnic ...

2025年3月27日 · Kirkūk, city, capital of Kirkūk muḥāfaẓah (governorate), northeastern Iraq. The city is 145 miles (233 km) north of Baghdad, the national capital, with which it is linked by road and railway. Kirkūk is located near the foot of the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan region of …

①基尔库克 / Kirkuk 旧省名。在伊拉克东北部 。面积19，543平方公里，人口53.5万（1977年）。东部为 扎格罗斯山 山麓地区，西部属 美索不达米亚平原 。石油业为主要经济部门。农业主产小麦、大麦、柑橘、苹果，饲养绵羊。

2019年9月26日 · Iraq’s Kirkuk: Oil deals, ethnic divides, and Kurdish grievances - The New Humanitarian puts quality, independent journalism at the service of the millions of people affected by humanitarian crises around the world

2023年9月13日 · Kirkuk, a multi-ethnic and oil-rich province in northern Iraq, is a historically disputed area between the Iraqi federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and peshmerga security forces took control of Kirkuk in 2014 before being expelled in 2017 by federal troops following a referendum ...

2023年9月10日 · The conflict includes the people of Kirkuk (Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen) and the governments of Baghdad and Erbil, as well as regional powers, particularly Turkey and Iran.

2017年10月16日 · After a controversial independence referendum, Iraq and the Kurds are in a power struggle over the oil-rich province of Kirkuk. DW explains what is driving the conflict – and where it could be...

2008年10月9日 · Initially, this article gives attention to the role of Kirkuk and other disputed areas in the formulation of the Kurdish decision to return to Iraq, by highlighting its moral, historic, symbolic, g...

City of Black Gold tells a story of oil, urbanization, and colonialism in Kirkuk—and how these factors shaped the identities of Kirkuk's citizens, forming the foundation of an ethnic conflict. Arbella Bet-Shlimon reconstructs the twentieth-century history of Kirkuk to question the assumptions about the past underpinning today's ethnic divisions.