Akre redirects here. For the American journalist, see Jane Akre

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; for the city in Israel, see Akko

Aqrah (Kurdish

Kurdish language

Kurdish is a dialect continuum spoken by the Kurds in western Asia. It is part of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages....

 Akrê, ئاکرێ; ) is a city

City

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 and district in Iraq

Iraq

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 which is located in the Ninawa Governorate

Ninawa Governorate

Ninawa is a governorate in northern Iraq, and the Arabic name for the biblical city of Nineveh in Assyria. It has an area of and an estimated population of 2,453,000 people in 2003. Its chief city and provincial capital is Mosul, which lies across the Tigris river from the ruins of ancient...

. The total area of the district is (6418) km2. It was formed in 1877 by the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 and the city of Aqrah became the center of the district.

Population

The population is mainly Kurds

Kurdish people

The Kurdish people, or Kurds , are an Iranian people native to the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey...

, but with an Assyrian

Assyrian people

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 minority.
Defend International

Defend International

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 President Widad Akrawi

Widad Akrawi

Widad Akrawi, , is a Kurdish author, lecturer, senior lobbyist, human rights defender and currently the President of Defend International.-Early years:Akrawi was born in Akre, Iraq and has been residing in Denmark since 1992...

, the Kurdish film director, Hiner Saleem

Hiner Saleem

Huner Saleem, also transliterated as Huner Salim, , is an Iraqi–Kurdish film director. He was born in the town of Aqrah in Iraqi Kurdistan. He left Iraq at the age of 17, and soon made his way to Italy, where he completed school and attended university. Later on, he moved to France where he lives now...

, and the Iraqi Ambassador to Vienna, Tariq Aqrawi, were born in this city.