Amedi
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Amedi is a small Kurdish city in the Iraqi Dahuk Governorate and Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq. It is 10 kilometers away from the Turkish border. The history of this city goes back to 3000 years B.C. , it has always been a strategic place as it is built on the flat top of a mountain.
The altitude of the city is 1400 meters above sea level. It is 1000m long and 500m wide. It houses 6000 citizens in almost 1200 houses. There is an old mosque with a minaret that is 30 meters long.
In late April 2006 because of alleged terrorist activities committed by members of the PKK, the Turkish army launched it's Operation Crescent, which included the shelling of the Kurdish towns Amedi and Zakho.
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