Tel Keppe District is one of ten districts that make up the Ninewa Governorate. It has a large Assyrian population.

Tel Keppe (also spelled Tel Keipeh) (Classical Syriac: ܬܠ ܟܐܦܐ‎ Tal Kepe, Arabic: تل كيف‎ Tal Kaif), is one of the largest historically Assyrian towns in Iraq. It is located in the Ninawa Governorate, less than 8 miles North East of Mosul (Nineveh) in northern Iraq.

The name, Tel Keppe, is of Aramaic origin and is made of two syllables; "Tel" which means "hill" and "Keppe" which means "stones" i.e. Hill of Stones. Her name comes from its location over a ruined suburb of Nineveh, capital of old Assyria.

Unfortunately, due to the presence of the only cemetery over the hill that make up Tel Keppe, it has been difficult to excavate the Assyrian ruins of this suburb of Nineveh. However, so far what had been able to be excavated is the water irrigation canals that were built by Assyrian King Sennacherib (705- 681 BC) to irrigate the land around Tel Keppe. Also, an excavation by the Iraqi Directorate of Antiquities succeeded in finding vases dating to 2000 years BC, and other items even much older and of a prehistoric time. In addition to that, several old ruins of churches and monasteries dating to early Christianity were found in Tel Keppe. Currently, Tel Keppe has 5 old churches, and a large new one.

Juliana Jendo (Syriac: ܓܘܠܝܢܐ ܓܢܕܐ) is an Assyrian–American singer. She was born and raised in Tel Tamer, Syria. Along with her family, she emigrated to the USA in 1980 and settled in Chicago, Illinois. Jendo is usually classified as the "Queen of Assyrian Singers" because of her long and successful career throughout all the different Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac communities worldwide.

She was born and raised in Tel Tamer, Syria. She finished graduated from university with a degree in French literature and was a teacher for few years before she began her singing career.

Juliana later marries however the marriage is not successful and she returns with her 2003 album "Mellatti" which again she sings in Assyrian and Chaldean Neo-Aramaic dialects. Jendo releases her second Western Assyrian album "Elemo Halyo" in 2008 and "Tel Keppeh" in which she mainly sings in Arabic. Jendo currently resides in Royal Oak, Michigan and still is singing for the Assyrians with a recent album titled "Golden Tunes".