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Definition of Kirkuk

1. Noun. A city in northeastern Iraq; the center of a rich oilfield with pipelines to the Mediterranean.

Definition of Kirkuk

1. Proper noun. a city in northeast Iraq ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kirkuk

Literary usage of Kirkuk

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Endless Torment: The 1991 Uprising in Iraq and Its Aftermath by Eric Goldstein, Middle East Watch (Organization) (1992)
"Their victory in kirkuk was the high point of the Kurdish insurrection; their defeat spelled its end. Shortly after the unrest began in the north, ..."

2. Genocide in Iraq: The Anfal Campaign Against the Kurds by George Black (1993)
"... twelve women and twenty children in all-have been "sent on to the Amn administration of al-Ta'mim [kirkuk] governorate"—the clearest possible proof of ..."

3. Human Rights Watch World Report 1992 by Human Rights Watch (Organization (1991)
"kirkuk: The battle for kirkuk, the last major city to be captured by the ... An oil-rich city with an ethnically mixed population, kirkuk has long been a ..."

4. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1919)
"retreated rapidly toward kirkuk, but their cavalry overtook one of their columns and ... Twenty-five miles farther on in the Mosul direction is kirkuk, ..."

5. Bureaucracy of Repression: The Iraqi Government in Its Own Words by Joost R. Hiltermann (1994)
"8 Kurdish rebels held the town of kirkuk for barely a week during the uprising. According to rebel sources, they failed to remove most of the documents they ..."

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