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- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
- GeoNames
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Overview
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
Connections
People and things also explored
عماد الدين زنكي الثاني· صلاح الدين يوسف بن أيوب الملك الناصر· سيف الدين غازي الثاني صاحب الموصل· Sayf al-Dīn besieges his brother ʿImād al-Dīn at Sinjār — then flees before Saladin· The great flood of Sinjar, 511
Sources
- Rihla of Ibn Battuta (Tuhfat al-nuzzar), Arabic edition 1958
- GeoNames gazetteer
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Sinjar”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/sinjar/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.