Population Change and Urban Expansion in the Villages of Bashiqa and Bahzani for the Period 2010-2022
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The research aims to reveal the change in the size and growth of the population in the Bashiqa and Bahzani reeds during the period 2010-2022, and its impact on the expansion on the neighboring agricultural lands, through the creation of non-morphological residential neighborhoods in both districts. The population increase resulting from natural growth and net migration was one of the factors positively affecting the increase in the size of the population of the two districts and their urban changes is through the expansion of its urban structure, which was associated with a positive relationship with the population.
In order to reach the best ways to reveal the impact of population change on the expansion of the two districts, this study came to show the presence of continued expansion and population growth during the study period, as their built-up area reached 4.7 square kilometers for the year 2010, then this area increased to record 6.1 km 2 for the year 2022, and the population growth rate reached 2.6% for the same period, and this requires preparing planning for it in order to ensure its balanced growth and work on comprehensive development plans for the infrastructure, and the results of the study showed that the District Municipality Directorate in Bashiqa contributed a major role in the new neighborhoods by providing requirements The main life through the planning of the main and secondary streets as well as the extension of networks for drinking water and sanitation, and the study recommends the need to work on the new master plan of the two reeds to accommodate the expansions in urban land uses while adhering to the laws and regulations that prevent encroachment on the agricultural lands surrounding the city.
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- The Kasbah: means the old city, or the center of the city, and the Kasbah is originally a city.
The name Bahzani: (Bahzan), meaning the city of knowledge, or the house of Haziani: meaning the place of vision and scenery, or the word (Bizanitha), meaning the house of sadness, due to the large number of monks who were killed on Barsoum of Nisibis and buried there.
The name Bashiqa: (Bashiqa) is Aramaic, meaning the house of Ashiqa. It may mean the house of the oppressed, and Bashiqa is a Syriac word, the house of Ashiqa, meaning the oppressor, the corrupt, or the tolerant. Mumtaz Hussein Suleiman Khalo, Bashiqa, the Town of Olives and Giving, Hawar Press, Dohuk, 2012, pp. 9-11. .
- Republic of Iraq, Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation, Central Bureau of Statistics and Information Technology, results of population estimates for the year 2022.
- Bashiqa District Directorate, Bashiqa Primary Health Care Center, Births and Deaths Office, Life Records, Unpublished Data for 2022.
- Bashiqa District Municipality Directorate, Planning Department, Archive, unpublished data for the year 2022.
- The population growth rate was extracted based on the equation of the geometric mean: Taha Hammadi Al-Hadithi, Population Geography, 2nd edition, Ibn Al-Atheer Printing House, Mosul, 2000, p. 308.
- Muhammad Saleh Rabie, Geography of Cities, Al-Mustansiriya University, Baghdad, 2010, p. 223.
Population density = population of a region ÷ area of the region km2
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