Sinjar

سنجار

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Sinjar is a town in northern Iraq on the road to al-Jazira. Ibn Battuta passed through it on his way from Nisibin to Mosul. 1

Note

The coordinates are taken from a modern settlement of the same name in the GeoNames gazetteer, and matching it to the ancient site needs review. 2

Sources

  1. Rihla of Ibn Battuta (Tuhfat al-nuzzar), Arabic edition 1958
  2. GeoNames gazetteer
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islam.museum contributors. “Sinjar”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/sinjar/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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