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|population_as_of = 2010
|population_footnotes = <ref>[http://www.taakhinews.org/tasearch/wmprint.php?ArtID=10893 هل كانت تلكيف بلدة آشورية قديمة؟], فؤاد يوسف قزانجي</ref>
|population_note = Tel Kepe received a large influx of Assyrian Chaldean refugees following the [[2003 Iraq War]]
|population_total = 40,000
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'''Tel Keppe''' (also spelled '''Tel Keipeh''') ({{lang-syc|ܬܠ ܟܐܦܐ}} ''{{transl|syr|Tal Kepe}}'', {{lang-ar|تل كيف}} ''{{transl|syr|Tal Kaif}}''), is one of the largest historically Assyrian Chaldean towns in northern [[Iraq]]. Its name means "Hill of Stones" in [[Syriac]]. It is located in the [[Ninawa Governorate]], less than 8 miles north east of [[Mosul]]. <ref>Welcome to Tel Keppe at ChaldeansOnline http://www.chaldeansonline.org/telkeppe/</ref>
==History==
Historically the population Tel Kepper stayed at about 12,000 residents. From 1976 to 2001, the population was 30,000.<ref name=SmithNJp61>Smith, Natalie Jill. "Ethnicity, Reciprocity, Reputation and Punishment: An Ethnoexperimental Study of Cooperation among the Chaldeans and Hmong of Detroit (Michigan)" (PhD dissertation). [[University of California, Los Angeles]], 2001. p. 61. UMI Number: 3024065.</ref>
On 6 August 2014, the town was taken over by the [[Terrorist Islamic State of Iraq and Syria]] (ISIS), along with nearby Assyrian Chaldean towns [[Bakhdida]], [[Bartella]] and [[Karamlish|Karemlash]].<ref name="online.wsj.com">[http://online.wsj.com/articles/iraqi-militants-seize-christian-villages-1407404503 Barack Obama Approves Airstrikes on Iraq, Airdrops Aid]</ref> {{As of|2015|March|8}}, it is inhabited only by Arabs and terrorist ISIS militants.
==Tel Keppnias Today==
Starting in the 1980s and especially after the [[1991 Gulf War]] and [[2003 Invasion of Iraq]], many Assyrians Chaldeans from Tel Keppe fled to many countries, but primarily the [[United States]]. They set up their lives there with new churches and business for their families. <ref>Welcome to Tel Keppe at ChaldeansOnline http://www.chaldeansonline.org/telkeppe/</ref> By 2001 many from Tel Keppe had moved to major cities in Iraq such as [[Baghdad]] or [[Mosul]].<ref name=SmithNJp62>Smith, Natalie Jill. "Ethnicity, Reciprocity, Reputation and Punishment: An Ethnoexperimental Study of Cooperation among the Chaldeans and Hmong of Detroit (Michigan)" (PhD dissertation). [[University of California, Los Angeles]], 2001. p. 62. UMI Number: 3024065.</ref>
===In The United States===
As of 2004 many of the Assyruan Chaldeans in [[Metro Detroit]] trace their origins to Tel Keppe. According to the estimates of a priest of Tel Keppe's Sacred Heart Chaldean Rite Catholic Church, there were 10,000 worshipers in the late 1950s and this decreased to 2,000 around 2004. He said that "Many people don’t want to go from here; they cry that they have to go… But you almost have to leave these days because your family probably already is in [[Detroit]]."<ref name=ACMEp2>"[http://www.cus.wayne.edu/content/publications/Arab_Factsheet1.pdf Arab, Chaldean, and Middle Eastern Children and Families in the Tri-County Area]." ([http://www.webcitation.org/6KzXnh0Ci Archive]) ''From a Child's Perspective: Detroit Metropolitan Census 2000 Fact Sheets Series''. [[Wayne State University]]. Volume 4, Issue 2, February 2004. p. 2/32. Retrieved on November 8, 2013. {{deadlink|date=March 2015}}</ref>
===Elsewhere===
* Fr. Shemoel Jamil (1847–1917), who was in charge of all Chaldean monasteries.
* Journalist Maryam Narmy, born in 1890. Published the first Iraqi women's issues newspaper, "Arabian Woman" in 1937.
* Joseph Hirmis Jammo, author of "Nineveh's Ruins or History of Tal Kayf" published in 1937.
* Journalist Alexander Marouf.
*[[Alqosh]]
*[[Bakhdida]]
*[[Batnaya]] and [[Barwari]] - Assyrian Chaldean tribes also in Northern Iraq
==References==
{{Districts of Iraq}}
[[Category:Assyrian Chaldean settlements]]
[[Category:Populated places in Nineveh Governorate]]
[[Category:District capitals of Iraq]]
