Sinjar Mountains
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Sinjar Mountain also Shengar/Shengal Mountains is a single ridge of mountains located in Nineveh Governorate in northwestern Iraq
. It is situated near a city of the same name (Sinjar
).
The mountains are mainly inhabited by Yazidis who venerate it and consider it to be the place where Noah's Arc settled after the biblical flood.
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
. It is situated near a city of the same name (Sinjar
Sinjar
Sinjar is the name of a town and district in northwestern Iraq's Ninawa Governorate near the Syrian border. Its population at the time of the 2006 census was 39,875....
).
The mountains are mainly inhabited by Yazidis who venerate it and consider it to be the place where Noah's Arc settled after the biblical flood.