Sanat, Iraq

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| native_name = ܐܣܢܟܼ / سناط

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| subdivision_name2 = Duhok Governorate

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| established_date = By 1913

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| website = {{Official URL|https://sanathistory.wordpress.com}}

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Sanat ({{langx|syc|ܐܣܢܟܼ}}, {{langx|ku|سناط}}) is an Assyrian village located in the Dohuk Governorate, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.{{Cite web |title=SANAT HISTORY |url=https://sanathistory.wordpress.com |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=SANAT HISTORY |language=en}} It is situated in the Dohuk district of the Kurdistan Region.{{Cite book |last=David Gaunt |url=https://archive.org/details/massacres-resistance-protectors-muslim-christian-relations-in-eastern-anatolia-d/page/426/mode/2up |title=Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I |date=2006 |pages=432}}

History

In 1913, the village of Sanat (Asnakh) was home to 600 Chaldean Catholics.{{Cite book |last=David Gaunt |url=https://archive.org/details/massacres-resistance-protectors-muslim-christian-relations-in-eastern-anatolia-d/page/426/mode/2up |title=Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I |date=2006 |pages=432}}

In 1976 the village was destroyed by Iraq's central government. {{Cite book |last=Donabed |first=Sargon |title=Reforging a Forgotten History: Iraq and the Assyrians in the Twentieth Century |publisher=Edinburgh University Press. |year=2015 |isbn=978-1474412124 |pages=185}}

As of 2017 village was uninhabited but had a PKK militant presence.{{Cite web |title=Population Database |url=https://www.shlama.org/population |access-date=2025-04-16 |website=Shlama Foundation |language=en}}

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