Definitions for Sinjar
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1. Sinjar

   Sinjar (Arabic: سنجار, romanized: Sinjār; Kurdish: شنگال, romanized: Şingal, Syriac: ܫܝܓܪ, romanized: Shingar) is a town in the Sinjar District of the Nineveh Governorate in northern Iraq. It is located about five kilometers south of the Sinjar Mountains. Its population in 2013 was estimated at 88,023, and is predominantly Yazidi.

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1. Sinjar

   Sinjar is a town in northwestern Iraq's Ninawa Governorate on Mount Sinjar near the Syrian border. Its population in 2013 was estimated at 23,023. The town is mainly inhabited by Yezidis with Arab and Assyrian minorities. A huge mound and wall in northeastern Syria known as Tell Hamoukar indicate an urban civilisation dating back at least 6,000 years. The Sinjar valley belonged to the Northern Ubaid culture. In the Sinjar plain, where Tell Hamoukar is located, civilizations are known to have existed many centuries earlier. More than 200 sites are known. Some sources mention the city as the location of the Christian saint Abd-al-Masih's martyrdom. Ibn al-Akfani was born in Sinjar. Sinjar was the site of the filming, and some of the plot, for the 1973 film The Exorcist.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Sinjar in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Sinjar in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Sinjar in a Sentence

1. John Allen:

   As you recall about this time last year, we were all facing the horror of what was happening in the vicinity of Sinjar to the Yazidi people. A year later, Kurdish forces, some number of thousands of them, have launched into the attack to push Daesh (ISIS) out of that area.

2. Haji Najem Hussim:

   Now there is fighting in Sinjar. Islamic State's morale has collapsed completely, one hundred percent tomorrow, we will go to the town of Sinjar.

3. Sean MacFarland:

   One hundred percent this (training) is based on the lessons that we learned watching the challenges in Ramadi and Tikrit and Sinjar and Baiji where the enemy had obstacle belts, it's about breaching obstacles just like we do in conventional maneuvers.

4. Masrour Barzani:

   We have opened a corridor from south of Zummar to the Mountain Sinjar.

5. Paton Walsh:

   The Peshmerga here want to show that they can be united with coalition air power, with Western military advisers, who we understand are in their midst here as well, to launch a successful -- and they hope brief -- offensive towards this town, but also strategically, because of what Sinjar could mean in the future, down the line.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinjar
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Sinjar