:Sharafiya
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| other_name = شرفية
| native_name = ܫܲܪܦ̮ܝܼܵܐ
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| subdivision_name1 = Nineveh
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| subdivision_name2 = Tel Kaif
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Sharafiya ({{langx|aii|ܫܲܪܦ̮ܝܼܵܐ|šarfīyā}}, {{langx|ar|شرفية|šarafiyya}}, {{langx|ku|شەرەفیە|şerefye}}) is a village in the Nineveh Plains of northern Iraq, a sub-district of the Tel Kaif District situated 40 km northwest of the city of Mosul and is on the main road that connects Mosul to Alqosh, which it is only 5 kilometers south of.
Prior to its destruction by the Islamic State, it was home to about 400 families.{{Cite magazine |last=Giovanni |first=Janine di |title=The Vanishing: In the field: the burgeoning understanding of moral injury |url=https://harpers.org/archive/2018/12/the-vanishing-christians-in-iraq-syria-egypt/ |access-date=2024-05-04 |magazine=Harper's Magazine |language=en |volume=December 2018 |issn=0017-789X}} After the defeat of the Islamic State in the region by the Kurdish Peshmerga, the village's Church of St. George was restored and baptisms of infants resumed in January 2018.{{Cite news |date=18 August 2014 |title=Battle rages for control of Mosul dam |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2014/8/18/battle-rages-for-control-of-mosul-dam |access-date=2024-05-04 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}
See also
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{{Nineveh Plains}}
Category:Populated places in Nineveh Governorate