Sangasar
Sangasar is a small market town in Iraqi Kurdistan, around 110 km East of Erbil and 120 km North of Sulaymaniyah. in the late 1980s, Saddam Hussein forcibly displaced the inhabitants of the town as part of a plan to evict Kurdish people from the Eastern border with Iran.- Town
- …lies at an elevation of around 570 metres (1,870 feet)
- Description: town in Iraq
- Also known as“Darak Dula, Darōk, Darōk Dūla, Darok Dulo, Darwakadūla, Darwakdula, Darwakidawlah, Dawrak Dūlah, Dork Dula”“Sangah sār”“Sankah Sār”“Singasir”“Sungāsar”
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Latitude
36.24386° or 36° 14′ 38″ north
Longitude
45.00572° or 45° 0′ 21″ east
Open location code
8H8762V4+G7
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OpenStreetMap feature
place = town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Russian—“Sangasar” goes by many names.
دروكدولةArabic
سنكاسارArabic
سنكسرArabic
سنکسرArabic
سنگسرArabic
سەنگەسەرCentral Kurdish
SangasarDutch
ΣανγκασάρGreek
SengeserKurdish
سەنگەسەرKurdish
سنگسرPersian
سنگهسرPersian
СангасарRussian
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