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Khanaqin

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008

Khanaqin , town, NE Iraq, near the Iranian border, on a tributary of the Diyala. It is located in an oil-producing region and has an oil refinery. Khanaquin was severely affected by the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s.

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