Duhok

Duhok lies in a valley among the mountains north of Mosul, in the country historically known as Bahdinan. The town appears in the late fifteenth-century chronicle of Abu Bakr Tihrani in connection with Aq Qoyunlu campaigns. Its fortress was associated with the Dasini, and in the early sixteenth century the emir of Bahdinan assisted Shah Ismail in taking it. Duhok subsequently formed part of the emirate ruled from nearby Amadiya.