Armota

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Armota ܐܪܡܥܘܛܐ
Armota
Coordinates: 36°4′1″N 44°36′29″E / 36.06694°N 44.60806°E / 36.06694; 44.60806Coordinates: 36°4′1″N 44°36′29″E / 36.06694°N 44.60806°E / 36.06694; 44.60806{{#coordinates:36|4|1|N|44|36|29|E|type:city_region:IQ-AR |primary |name= }}
Country	Iraq
Governorate	Arbil
District	Koy Sanjaq District

Armota (Syriac: ܐܪܡܥܘܛܐ; Kurdish: Harmota) is an Assyrian village that is outside the town of Koy Sinjaq in the Iraqi governorate of Arbil. It is a two-hour drive from Sulaimaniyah.

The village is a remote farming hamlet within a rural portion of northern Iraq that was declared a Kurdish-controlled zone after the Persian Gulf War.

A 4th century Assyrian monastery sits on a hillside overlooking Armota. It has been built and destroyed many times. Most recently, Saddam Hussein's soldiers used dynamite to blow it up in 1988. The monastery's destruction was part of a broad scorched-earth campaign targeting non-Arabs, dubbed the Anfal campaign.

• List of Assyrian villages