Service project worth $482,000 in Duhuk

Duhuk-Projects DUHUK / IraqiNews.com: A local company began on Monday the implementation of a service project in Aqara district worth $482,000 within the budget to develop provinces, the mayor of the district said. “Shaniek local company started today implementing a project to pave Mahala-Khorda road with a part of the main road Arbil-Aqara, south of Duhuk,” Jahour Ali told IraqiNews.com, noting the project’s total cost reached USD 482,000. He expressed hope that the project could be completed before the end of the year. Aqara is located 65 km north of Mosul. Also spelled Duhok , Dohuk Dehok or Dahok ; it is a city in the far northern part of Iraq to the borders with Turkey. It has about 500,000 inhabitants, mostly consisting of Kurds and Assyrians. According to some sources, the name “Duhuk” comes from Kurmanji Kurdish meaning “small village”. Circled by mountains along the Tigris river, Duhuk, the third province with Iraq’s Kurdistan region, has a growing tourist industry. Its population grew extremely since the 1990s as the rural population moved to the cities. Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States, Duhuk and Iraqi Kurdistan in general have remained the only safe places for foreigners. SH (S)/SR   1