Daquq

 ( Populated Places In Kirkuk Governorate ) 

A clay tablet from 622 BCE written in Akkadian language in Neo-Assyrian script mentions Diquqina. In the record, the treasurer Šumma-ilani purchases the enslaved woman Nanaya-da from the priest Remanni-ilu, a transaction witnessed by 5 people from Diquqina. In another mention of Diquqina from the 7th century BCE, Dadī, a servant of the Assyrian king reports to his ruler that the town of Diquqina hasn't delivered the two cows and 20 sheep required as sacrifice to the king. He continues, that they haven't delivered the sacrifice for years (the exact number was not readable) and requests military action against the town. The sources do not mention an etymology of the name Diquqina.

Abul-Fath Mohammad bin Annaz, the founder of the Annazid dynasty, temporarily seized Daquq from Banu Oqayl in 998 AD. In the Middle Ages, the city became known in Arabic as Daqūq and Daqūqā. Idris Bitlisi mentioned the town in his work Sharafnama from 1597 as a town being a source of naphtha.

In 1925, Daquq's population was predominantly Turkmen.

60% of the population was Kurdish in the 1947 census out of a population of 14,600.

It experienced Arabization during the Saddam Hussein in which Kurdish and Turkmen land was seized for Arab settlers. After the fall of the Saddam regime, Kurds forced the Arab settlers out.

In 2011, an estimated 7.3% of Daquq residents lived below the poverty line.

On 21 October 2016, the International Coalition bombed a Muharram shrine, where 28 Iraqi Turkmens civilians (25 woman and 3 children) were killed.

After the 2017 Battle of Kirkuk, the city has experienced renewed Arabization. In November 2018, reports indicated that 50 Arab households, escorted by the Iraqi Federal Police, had settled into Daquq.