Jalawla

Jalawla (Kurdish: Celewla ,گوڵاڵە‎,[2][3] Arabic: جلولاء‎, or translated as Jalula) is a town in Diyala Governorate, Iraq. It is located on the Diyala River[4] 8 km north of Al-Sadiyah.

Jalawlā

Arabic: جلولاء‎

Kurdish: Celewla ,گوڵاڵە‎
Jalawlā
Coordinates: 34°16′19″N 45°10′5″E
Country Iraq (Disputed territories of Northern Iraq)[1]
GovernorateDiyala
DistrictKhanaqin

Background

The Battle of Jalula took place in the town between the Sassanid Empire and the Rashidun Caliphate soon after the conquest of Ctesiphon. Historian Ibn al-Athir reports that the Persian losses in Jalawla reached 100,000 and the dead bodies has "Jellat" (filled the ground) so the area became known as Jalawla.

From August to November 2014 the city was mostly under the control of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and local Arab tribes which seized the town from the Popular Mobilization Forces (Iraq) in Kurdistan Regional Government in August 2014.[5]

On 23 November 2014, the joint Shi'ite Iraqi forces and Kurdish Peshmerga recaptured the whole city,[6] under the command of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani[7] Following the events of October 2017 the Iraqi army along with the PMU forces took control of the city.[8]

References
  1. Hanish, Shak (1 March 2010). "The Kirkuk Problem and Article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution: The Kirkuk Problem". Digest of Middle East Studies. pp. 15–25. doi:10.1111/j.1949-3606.2010.00002.x. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  2. "داعش هێرشی کردە سەر گوڵاڵە، ١٢ قوربانی لێکەوتەوە". ROJ News (in Kurdish). Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  3. "Celewla- DAIŞê êrîşî artêşa Iraqê kir, kuştî û birîndar hene" (in Kurdish). 24 November 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  4. "Jalula's Map". Map Landia. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
  5. http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2014/Aug-11/266784-isis-drives-kurds-out-of-jalawla-in-iraq.ashx#axzz3JvZ2ewpW
  6. https://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/23/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-towns-idUSKCN0J70AX20141123
  7. Afshon Ostovar. Vanguard of the Imam: Religion, Politics, and Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Oxford University Press. p. 227.
  8. Rûdaw. 17 October 2017 https://www.rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/17102017. Retrieved 21 November 2019. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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