|population_as_of = 2011
|population_footnotes =
|population_note = The town received thousands of Assyrian Chaldean refugees from [[Baghdad]] and [[Mosul]]
|population_total = 30,000
|population_density = <!--Note: use population_footnotes for refs, use only unformatted numbers here -->
|twin1_country =
}}
'''Ankawa''' (a.k.a. '''Ainkawa''') ({{lang-syr|ܥܢܟܒܐ}}, {{lang-ar|عنكاوا}}, ''‘ankāwā'') is an [[Assyrian Chaldean people|AssyrianChaldean]] suburb of [[Erbil]].<ref name="dailytelegraph">Richard Spencer, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/11022879/Iraq-crisis-The-streets-of-Erbils-newly-Christian-suburb-are-now-full-of-helpless-people.html Iraq crisis: The streets of Erbil’s newly Christian suburb are now full of helpless people], ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', August 08, 2014</ref> It is sometimes referred to as the "Assyrian Chaldean Quarter" of Erbil.
==Location==
[[Category:Cities in Iraqi Kurdistan]]
[[Category:Assyrian Chaldean settlements]]
[[Category:Ankawa| ]]