Yarim Tepe
Yarim Tepe is an archaeological site of an early farming settlement that goes back to about 6000 BC. It is located in the Sinjar valley some 7km southwest from the town of Tal Afar in northern Iraq.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Sémhur, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Matar Faruq al Askari and Tal Afar.
Matar Faruq al Askari
Locality
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Tal Afar Air Base is a former Iraqi Air Force base near Tal Afar in the Nineveh Governorate of Iraq. Tal Afar Air Base was a primary air base for the Iraqi Air Force. Matar Faruq al Askari is situated 5 km southeast of Yarim Tepe.
Tal Afar
Photo: Kparker84, Public domain.
Tal Afar is a city in the Nineveh Governorate of northwestern Iraq, located 63 km west of Mosul, 52 km east of Sinjar and 200 km northwest of Kirkuk. Its local inhabitants are exclusively Turkmen.
Yarim Tepe
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: archaeological site of six tells in the Sinjar valley in northern Iraq
- Categories: tell, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Sinjar, Nineveh, Northwestern Iraq, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.32082° or 36° 19′ 15″ northLongitude
42.36867° or 42° 22′ 7″ eastOpen location code
8H8489C9+8FOpenStreetMap ID
node 10945287680OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q25490472
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Yarim Tepe” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ياريم تبة”
- Catalan: “Yarim Tepe”
- Dutch: “Yarim Tepe”
- French: “Yarim Tepe”
- German: “Yarim Tepe”
- Japanese: “ヤリム・テペ”
- Kazakh: “Ярым-Тепе”
- Russian: “Ярым-тепе”
- Russian: “Ярым-Тепе”
- Spanish: “Yarim Tappeh”
- Turkish: “Yarim Tepe”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Yarim Tepe”. Photo: Sémhur, CC BY-SA 3.0.