Place · mountain

Sinjar Mountains

Also known as Jebel Sinjar, Jabal Sinjar

The Sinjar Mountains are a ridge rising from the plain of northern Iraq, west of Mosul, near the Syrian border. In the early second millennium BCE the plains around it were home to small kingdoms such as Andarig and Karana, known from the Mari letters and the archives of Tell al-Rimah. The mountain is today the homeland of the Yazidi community.

Sinjar Mountains
Image: Levi Clancy · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

Mentioned in 3 state histories

Kingdom of KurdaKingdom of KaranaKingdom of Andarig

See also

Cite this entry
APA
The Epoch Institute. (2026). Sinjar Mountains. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sinjar-mountains
MLA
“Sinjar Mountains.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sinjar-mountains. Accessed .
Chicago
The Epoch Institute. “Sinjar Mountains.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sinjar-mountains.
Harvard
The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Sinjar Mountains’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sinjar-mountains (Accessed: ).

Last reviewed October 2026Random entry ↻