Yüksekova District
The district was historically an important trade route location due to its proximity to Iran.[4] From the 1810s to Sayfo in 1915, the entire population of around the Great Zab was East Syriac Assyrian whose main occupation was agriculture that consisted of wheat, barley, cotton and tea.[4] The local Assyrian population were descendants of people who found refuge among Kurds from the Golden Horde in the early fifteenth century.[6][7] Traveller Soane visisted the district in 1910, describing the area as 'one of the most inaccessible of the many sealed corners of this mountain country'.[2] Population history of the district from 2007 to 2023:[1] Yüksekova has a continental mediterranean climate (Köppen: Dsb).
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