2 residential projects in Duhuk

DUHUK / IraqiNews.com: A local company started implementing two residential projects in Duhuk with a total cost of $40 million, the director of the investment authority said on Wednesday. “The project to set up 449 houses with all services started to be implemented on Tuesday,” Bakhteer Amin told IraqiNews.com. “The local (Land of Dreams) company will set up the project with a total cost of $20 million,” he added. Meanwhile, Amin said that the other project envisages the establishment of 450 apartments with a total cost $20.150 million and will be implemented early 2009. Also spelled Duhok, Dohuk Dehok or Dahok; it is a city in the far northern part of Iraq to the borders with Turkey. It has about 500,000 inhabitants, mostly consisting of Kurds and Assyrians. According to some sources, the name “Duhuk” comes from Kurmanji Kurdish meaning “small village”. Circled by mountains along the Tigris river, Duhuk, the third province with Iraq’s Kurdistan region, has a growing tourist industry. Its population grew extremely since the 1990s as the rural population moved to the cities. Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States, Duhuk and Iraqi Kurdistan in general have remained the only safe places for foreigners. SH (S) 1