Factors affecting the demographics of Al-Djazīra (1 HIJRI- 7AD / 7HIJRI - 13AD)

Al-Djazra has attracted the attention of Muslim geographers and historians, Were this importance appears through the lengthy chapters they put together in her speech, she addressed various geographical, economic, political and social aspects, ,we find that its demographic structure has been different since ancient times due to the nature of its unique geographical location, which is characterized by its natural wealth abundant water and occurrence, according to Al-Maqdisi a mediator between Iraq and the Levant and the homes of Arabes in Islam, which made it a crossing point for many migrations and invasions that came out of the hollow of the Asian contient and an area of population attraction in addition to the Arab tribes that migrated to it before Islam, which with the beginning of the Islamic conquests in the seventh century AD, constutited the majority of the population as the arab element seemed to gradually increase settled on his land, So the cities of Mosul, Baghdad, Basra and other cities became bases for attracting Arab and non- Arab elements, from the Kurds- who settled in this region since ancient times and used to live in the eastern and northeastern highland- and the Turkmen who lived side by side with the kurds next door to them, and shared their livelihood and land resources, As for the Armenians and the Syriacs, they are groups that formed minorities in this region