(the Demetrios of Strabo, and the Coreura of Ptolemy), a large town of Asiatic Turkey, Lower Kurdistan, on the direct road from Bagdad to Mosul, 130 miles N. of the former, and 100 S.E. of the latter. It is a large open town, in a plain; but, like all the towns in this part of the world, is in great part in ruins. The streets are narrow and filthy, and the houses mean. It is said to have no manufactures except a coarse calico, but there is a considerable trade in gall-nuts, which are brought from the Kurdistan Mountains. There are numerous naphtha pits in the vicinity. Pop. about 13,000, Arabs and Osmanlis, with some Christians and Jews. N. Lat. 33° 27., E. Long. 44° 27.