Shabak Migrations and Diaspora

This culture are of Kurdish descendants of the Turcoman Shiite tribes that had once migrated to the east of the Ottoman Empire from Persia all the way up until the 17th century.  It has been known that the people of this culture have been living in Iraq since 1502.  It is believed that in the 16th century the Shabak people immigrated from Persia, spreading into the Nineveh plain of Mesopotamia.  The Shabak people can be found in many different villages around the east of Mosul, Iraq. These places include some areas in Iraqi Kurdistan to Tall'Affar, Iraq to Mosul, and Kirkuk to Khanaqin, Iraq.  It has been recorded that there has been a smaller amount of Shabaks in Iraq, they usually tend to work as sharecroppers on farms in the areas that they live in.