Sandur, Iraq
Sandur
سندۆرێ / סונדור | |
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Village | |
Jewish homes in Sandur, Kurdistan, 1934. | |
Interactive map of Sandur | |
Sandur Location of Sandur in Iraq Sandur Sandur (Iraqi Kurdistan) | |
| Coordinates: 36°54′29″N 43°03′43″E / 36.90806°N 43.06194°E | |
| Country | Iraq |
| Region | Kurdistan Region |
| Governorate | Duhok Governorate |
| District | Duhok District |
| Population (1949) | |
• Total | ~100 families |
| Village was depopulated in the early 1950s due to Jewish emigration. | |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (AST) |
| Formerly a Jewish village | |
Sandur, also spelled Sundur (Kurdish: سندۆرێ, romanized: Sindorê, Hebrew: סונדור), was a village in Iraqi Kurdistan, approximately 70 miles north of Mosul, near Duhok, on the way to Amediyah. First a historically Christian village, it later became an agricultural settlement inhabited by Kurdish Jews.