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Tel Keppe (also spelled Tel Keipeh) (Syriac: ܬܠ ܟܐܦܐ Tal Kepe, Arabic: تل كيف Tal Kaif), is one of the largest 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. All of its Chaldean Christian residents fled for Iraqi Kurdistan on August 2014 after the invasion of the town by ISIS.
Historically the population Tel Kepper stayed at about 12,000 residents. From 1976 to 2001, the population was 30,000.
On 6 August 2014, the town was taken over by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), along with nearby Chaldean and Syriac towns Bakhdida, Bartella and Karemlash.As of 8 March 2015, it is inhabited only by Arabs and ISIS militants.
Starting in the 1980s and especially after the 1991 Gulf War and 2003 Invasion of Iraq, many 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. By 2001 many from Tel Keppe had moved to major cities in Iraq such as Baghdad or Mosul.
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